An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick
Old Quotes
While there is a legend abroad in the land that advancing years mellow one and somehow bring out the kindlier impulses of one’s nature; and, that the countryside swarms with repentant Scrooges, the reality is that, when a bastard grows old, he simply becomes an old bastard.
Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never comes when it is gold, And the great price we paid for it full worth: We have it only when we are half earth. Little avails that coinage to the old!
I have a bone to pick with Fate. Come here and tell me, girlie, Do you think my mind is maturing late, Or simply rotted early?
Old men are dangerous it doesn’t matter to them what is going to happen to the world.
Don’t just count your years, make your years count.
Caesar was too old, it seems to me, to go off and amuse himself conquering the world. Such a pastime was all right for Augustus and Alexander; they were young men, not easily held in check, but Caesar ought to have been more mature.
The longer I live, the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
I dread no more the first white in my hair, Or even age itself, the easy shoe, The cane, the wrinkled hands, the special chair: Time, doing this to me, may alter too My sorrow, into something I can bear.
As we grow older, our bodies get shorter and our anecdotes longer.
