Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.
Old Quotes
Why can’t we build orphanages next to homes for the elderly? If someone were sitting in a rocker, it wouldn’t be long before a kid will be in his lap.
Such is the condition of life that something is always wanting to happiness. In youth we have warm hopes, which are soon blasted by rashness and negligence, and great designs which are defeated by inexperience. In age, we have knowledge and prudence, without spirit to exert, or motives to prompt them; we are able to […]
The quality, not the longevity, of one’s life is what is important.
Presently I shall be introduced as ‘this venerable old gentleman’ and the axe will fall when they raise me to the degree of ‘grand old man’. That means on our continent any one with snow-white hair who has kept out of jail till eighty.
At fifty, the madwoman in the attic breaks loose, stomps down the stairs, and sets fire to the house. She won’t be imprisoned anymore.
If only, when one heard That Old Age was coming One could bolt the door, Answer “Not at home” And refuse to meet him!
I have everything I had twenty years ago, only it’s all a little lower.
The older we get, the more Jewish we become in my family. My mother’s father declared himself an atheist in his communist youth, so we never belonged to a synagogue or had bat mitzvahs. But we wind up in Hebrew homes for the aged and in cemeteries with Hebrew letters over the gates. Thus does […]
For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying.
