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.
Old Quotes
A young trooper should have an old horse.
It is really about time that age was accepted as part of life too. We are afraid of growing old. And many of us spend more than half our waking hours trying to camouflage our age. There is nothing more beautiful than an unadorned old face with the lines that tell a story, a story […]
I grow old – I grow old – I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.
If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.
Age does not bring wisdom but it does give perspective… and the saddest perspective of all is to see far, far behind you, the temptations you’ve passed up.
Though gray be your hair, With little to part, This does not denote, The age of your heart.
Methuselah lived nine hundred years, Methuselah lived nine hundred years, Say, but what’s good o’ livin’ When no gal’ll give in To no man what’s nine hundred years?
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!
