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.
Old Quotes
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.
By the time you are 80, you’ve learned everything. You only have to remember it.
Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.
