Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age.
Old Quotes
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.
Old age begins in the nursery, and before the young American is put into jacket and trowsers, he says, ‘I want something which I never saw before;’ and ‘I wish I was not I.’ I have seen the same gloom on the brow even of those adventurers from the intellectual class, who had dived deepest […]
She may very well pass for forty-three In the dusk with a light behind her!
When they talk about his old age and venerableness and nearness to the grave he knows better… He is an old roue’ who cannot live on slops and must have sulphuric acid in his tea.
Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I […]
