Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.
Old Quotes
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.
No man is ever old enough to know better.
When they talk about his old age and venerableness and nearness to the grave he knows better… He is an old roue’ who cannot live on slops and must have sulphuric acid in his tea.
Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I […]
As we grow older, we value total powers and effects, as the spirit, or quality of the man. We have another sight, and a new standard; an insight which disregards what is done for the eye, and pierces to the doer; an ear which hears not what men say, but hears what they do not […]
I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
