In wine and man this difference appears: The old man bores you, but the wine cheers. Men do not, like your wine, improve by age; The more their years, the less their ways engage.
Old Quotes
To me old age is always fifteen years older than I am.
‘Tis said that persons living on annuities are longer lived than others.
A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life. (Cassius Clay)
I’m too young to be old and too old to be young:
It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem -and in my esteem age is not estimable.
To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent – that is to triumph over old age.
Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.
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 […]
Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.
