The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor.
Old Quotes
While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.
Christ came when all things were growing old. He made them new.
To grow old is to grow young and to grow young is to grow old.
The surest sign of age is loneliness.
People who say you’re just as old as you feel are all wrong, fortunately.
Many people assume that mental and physical abilities necessarily decline with age, that we are, after age twenty-five, losing significant brain capacity on a daily basis. In reality, the average brain is capable of improving with age.
In wine and man this difference appears: The old man bores you, but the wine cheers. Men do not, like your wine, improve by age; The more their years, the less their ways engage.
To me old age is always fifteen years older than I am.
‘Tis said that persons living on annuities are longer lived than others.
