The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
Old Quotes
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
Middle age snuffs out more talent than ever wars or sudden deaths do.
To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old.
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age.
A man over ninety is a great comfort to all his elderly neighbours: he is a picket-guard at the extreme outpost; and the young folks of sixty and seventy feel that the enemy must get by him before he can come near their camp.
Whenever a man’s friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.
Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.
Call him not old whose visionary brain Holds over the past its undivided reign. For him in vain the envious seasons roll, Who bears eternal summer in his soul.
After a man passes sixty, his mischief is mainly in his head.
