Do you set down your name in the scroll of youth, that are written down old with all the characters of age? Have you not a moist eye? a dry hand? a yellow cheek? a white beard? a decreasing leg? an increasing belly? is not your voice broken? your wind short? your chin double? your […]
Old Quotes
After 60, it’s just patch, patch, patch.
What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.
The older I wax the better I shall appear. (Henry V)
A man’s only as old as the woman he feels.
Age doesn’t protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; for in my youth I never did apply hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; and did not, with unbashful forehead, woo the means of weakness and debility; therefore, my age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly. (As You Like It)
Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.
Preparation for old age should begin not later than one’s teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.
That ends this strange eventful history, Is second childishness and mere oblivion, Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything. (As You Like It)
