Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.
Old Quotes
Of all the barbarous middle ages, that which is most barbarous is the middle age of man! it is – I really scarce know what; but when we hover between fool and sage, and don’t know justly what we would be at – a period something like a printed page, black letter upon foolscap, while […]
Grow up as soon as you can. It pays. The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old, servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.
You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
Yet Time, who changes all, had altered him in soul and aspect as in age: years steal. Fire from the mind as vigor from the limb; and life’s enchanted cup but sparkles near the brim.
I recently turned sixty. Practically a third of my life is over.
Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.
You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.
Yet somehow our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members.
Age appears to be best in four things, – old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
