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 […]
Old Quotes
As we grow older, we value total powers and effects, as the spirit, or quality of the man. We have another sight, and a new standard; an insight which disregards what is done for the eye, and pierces to the doer; an ear which hears not what men say, but hears what they do not […]
I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
The age of a woman doesn’t mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.
No one can avoid aging, but aging productively is something else.
Who soweth good seed shall surely reap; The year grows rich as it groweth old, And life’s latest sands are its sands of gold!
If youth knew; if age could.
When people tell you how young you look, they are telling you how old you are.
I am forty now, and forty years is a lifetime; it is extremely old age. To go on living after forty is unseemly, disgusting, immoral! Who goes on living after forty? Give me a sincere and honest answer! I’ll tell you – fools and rogues.
Old men need applause too.
