Middle age snuffs out more talent than ever wars or sudden deaths do.
Old Quotes
To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old.
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age.
A man over ninety is a great comfort to all his elderly neighbours: he is a picket-guard at the extreme outpost; and the young folks of sixty and seventy feel that the enemy must get by him before he can come near their camp.
Whenever a man’s friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.
Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.
Call him not old whose visionary brain Holds over the past its undivided reign. For him in vain the envious seasons roll, Who bears eternal summer in his soul.
After a man passes sixty, his mischief is mainly in his head.
I have no romantic feelings about age. Either you are interesting at any age or you are not. There is nothing particularly interesting about being old or being young, for that matter.
I used to think the mainspring was broken by, although my father kept on writing. I hope I was wrong for I am keeping on in the same way. I like it and want to produce as long as I can.
