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.
Old Quotes
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!
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 […]
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.
Filth and old age, I’m sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
