Threescore years and ten! It is the Scriptural statute of limitations. After that, you owe no active duties; for you the strenuous life is over. You are a time-expired man, to use Kipling’s military phrase: You have served your term, well or less well, and you are mustered out. You are become an honorary member […]
Age Quotes
Old age is a special problem for me because I’ve never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself-a lad of about 19.
No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether this happens at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps on learning not only remains young, but becomes constantly more valuable regardless of physical capacity.
Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.
There are people whose watch stops at a certain hour and who remain permanently at that age.
Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.
You’ll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived.
One is always of his age and especially he who least appears so.
Beauty and ugliness disappear equally under the wrinkles of age; one is lost in them the other hidden.
