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.
Old Quotes
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.
The riders in a race do not stop short when they reach the goal. There is a little finishing canter before coming to a standstill. There is time to hear the kind voice of friends and to say to oneself: ‘The work is done.’ But just as one says that, the answer comes: ‘The race […]
The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
I am saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.
Aging is not ‘lost youth’ but a new stage of opportunity and strength.
The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.
The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
