It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem -and in my esteem age is not estimable.
Old Quotes
To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent – that is to triumph over old age.
Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.
Of all the barbarous middle ages, that which is most barbarous is the middle age of man! it is – I really scarce know what; but when we hover between fool and sage, and don’t know justly what we would be at – a period something like a printed page, black letter upon foolscap, while […]
Grow up as soon as you can. It pays. The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old, servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.
You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
Yet Time, who changes all, had altered him in soul and aspect as in age: years steal. Fire from the mind as vigor from the limb; and life’s enchanted cup but sparkles near the brim.
I recently turned sixty. Practically a third of my life is over.
Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.
Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.
