The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.
Old Quotes
I am long on ideas, but short on time. I expect to live to be only about a hundred.
I feel very old sometimes… I carry on and would not like to die before having emptied a few more buckets of shit on the heads of my fellow men.
Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.
Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so.
If you wouldst live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.
The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.
In youth we learn; in age we understand.
All would live long; but none would be old.
Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.
