I’ll tell ‘ya how to stay young: Hang around with older people.
Old Quotes
To grow old is to grow common. Old age equalizes – we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.
I don’t generally feel anything until noon, then it’s time for my nap.
At middle age the soul should be opening up like a rose, not closing up like a cabbage.
The best of friends fall out, and so his teeth had done some years ago.
The riders in a race do not stop short when they reach the goal. There is a little finishing canter before coming to a standstill. There is time to hear the kind voice of friends and to say to oneself: ‘The work is done.’ But just as one says that, the answer comes: ‘The race […]
The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
Middle age snuffs out more talent than ever wars or sudden deaths do.
To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old.
