For the first fourteen years for a rod they do while for the next as a pearl in the world they do shine. For the next trim beauty beginneth to swerve. For the next matrons or drudges they serve. For the next doth crave a staff for a stay. For the next a bier to […]
Age Quotes
A little more tired at close of day, A little less anxious to have our way; A little less ready to scold and blame; A little more care of a brother’s name; And so we are nearing the journey’s end, Where time and eternity meet and blend.
Midlife crisis is that moment when you realize your children and your clothes are about the same age.
You ought never to “sass” old people- unless they “sass” you first.
Women are as old as they feel – and men are old when they lose their feelings.
First you forget names, then you forget faces, then you forget to pull your zipper up, and then you forget to pull your zipper down.
I’d like to grow very old as slowly as possible.
On the whole, age comes more gently to those who have some doorway into an abstract world-art, or philosophy, or learning-regions where the years are scarcely noticed and the young and old can meet in a pale truthful light.
A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.
Nothing is more dishonorable than an old man, heavy with years, who has no other evidence of his having lived long except his age.
