Never have I enjoyed youth so thoroughly as I have in my old age. Nothing is inherently and invincibly young except spirit. And spirit can enter a human being perhaps better in the quiet of old age and dwell there more undisturbed than in the turmoil of adventure.
Age Quotes
There is more felicity on the far side of baldness than young men can possibly imagine.
When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you’re older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.
When I was young, I was told: “You’ll see, when you’re fifty.” I’m fifty and I haven’t seen a thing.
Be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of life it may occur.
Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.
Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and dying on a battlefield.
As I grow older and older And totter toward the tomb, I find that I care less and less Who goes to bed with whom.
How many fancy they have experience simply because they have grown old. (Stanislaus Leszczynski)
Here, with whitened hair, desires failing, strength ebbing out of him, with the sun gone down and with only the serenity and the calm warning of the evening star left to him, he drank to Life, to all it had been, to what it was, to what it would be. Hurrah!
