Middle age is when you’ve met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.
Old Quotes
My oil-dried lamp, shall be extinct with age. My inch of taper will be burnt and done. (Richard III)
Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you are aboard there is nothing you can do about it.
Middle age ends and senescence begins, The day your descendants outnumber your friends.
To me, fair friend, you never can be old, For as you were when first your eye I ey’d, Such seems your beauty still. (Sonnet 104)
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.
