When I was a kid the adults told us what to do: now the kids are telling me what to do; when do I get my ups?
Old Quotes
It is a hopeless endeavour to unite the contrarieties of spring and winter; it is unjust to claim the priveleges of age, and retain the play-things of childhood.
I find that a man is as old as his work. If his work keeps him from moving forward, he will look forward with the work.
Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.
The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.
I’ll tell ‘ya how to stay young: Hang around with older people.
To grow old is to grow common. Old age equalizes – we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.
I don’t generally feel anything until noon, then it’s time for my nap.
At middle age the soul should be opening up like a rose, not closing up like a cabbage.
The best of friends fall out, and so his teeth had done some years ago.
