A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
Old Quotes
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.
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.
Though gray be your hair, With little to part, This does not denote, The age of your heart.
Methuselah lived nine hundred years, Methuselah lived nine hundred years, Say, but what’s good o’ livin’ When no gal’ll give in To no man what’s nine hundred years?
Old age begins in the nursery, and before the young American is put into jacket and trowsers, he says, ‘I want something which I never saw before;’ and ‘I wish I was not I.’ I have seen the same gloom on the brow even of those adventurers from the intellectual class, who had dived deepest […]
She may very well pass for forty-three In the dusk with a light behind her!
