When the age is in, the wit is out. (Much Ado About Nothing)
Old Quotes
If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.
Middle age is when you’ve met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.
My oil-dried lamp, shall be extinct with age. My inch of taper will be burnt and done. (Richard III)
Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you are aboard there is nothing you can do about it.
Middle age ends and senescence begins, The day your descendants outnumber your friends.
To me, fair friend, you never can be old, For as you were when first your eye I ey’d, Such seems your beauty still. (Sonnet 104)
Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never comes when it is gold, And the great price we paid for it full worth: We have it only when we are half earth. Little avails that coinage to the old!
I have a bone to pick with Fate. Come here and tell me, girlie, Do you think my mind is maturing late, Or simply rotted early?
Old men are dangerous it doesn’t matter to them what is going to happen to the world.
