Old age deprives the intelligent man only of qualities useless to wisdom.
Old Quotes
Age is a tyrant who forbids at the penalty of life all the pleasures of youth.
To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it […]
From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.
Old men like to give good advice in order to console themselves for not being any longer able to set bad examples.
Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.
Every man who has lived for fifty years has buried a whole world or even two; he has grown used to its disappearance and accustomed to the new scenery of another act: but suddenly the names and faces of a time long dead appear more and more often on his way, calling up series of […]
I’m so old, they’ve canceled my blood type.
Wrecked on the lee shore of age.
The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.
