Age is a quality of mind. If you left your dreams behind, If hope is cold, If you no longer look ahead, If your ambitions’ fires are dead, Then you are old. But if from life you take the best, And if in life you keep the jest, If love you hold: No matter how […]
Age Quotes
Change excites me. I am fifty years of age. It’s when the mind catches up with the body.
Deaf, giddy, helpless, left alone, To all my friends a burden grown; No more I hear my church’s bell Than if it rang out for my knell; At thunder now no more I start Than at the rumbling of a cart; And, what’s incredible, alack! No more I hear a woman’s clack.
I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I’m not old yet!
You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.
One must wait until evening to see how splendid the day has been.
The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.
If I had my life to live over I’d like to make more mistakes next time. I’d relax. I would limber up. I would be sillier than I have been this trip. I would take fewer things seriously. I would take more chances. I would climb more mountains and swim more rivers. I would eat […]
The older we get, the fewer things seem worth waiting in line for.
Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes; they were easiest for his feet.
