Who soweth good seed shall surely reap; The year grows rich as it groweth old, And life’s latest sands are its sands of gold!
Old Quotes
If youth knew; if age could.
When people tell you how young you look, they are telling you how old you are.
I am forty now, and forty years is a lifetime; it is extremely old age. To go on living after forty is unseemly, disgusting, immoral! Who goes on living after forty? Give me a sincere and honest answer! I’ll tell you – fools and rogues.
Old men need applause too.
Women over fifty already form one of the largest groups in the population structure of the western world. As long as they like themselves, they will not be an oppressed minority. In order to like themselves they must reject trivialization by others of who and what they are. A grown woman should not have to […]
It is not how old you are, but how you are old.
Life begins at 40 – but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.
I am getting to an age when I can only enjoy the last sport left. It is called hunting for your spectacles.
I feel so sorry for folks who don’t like to grow old. I revel in my years. They enrich me. If God should say to me, ‘I will let you begin over again and you may have your youth back once more,’ I should say, ‘If You do not mind, I prefer to go on […]
