Man is capable of his greatest works when his mental powers are already on the wane, just as it is hotter in July at two in the afternoon, when the sun is already declining, than it is in June at midday
Old Quotes
When I am an old woman I shall wear purple, With a red hat which doesn’t go and doesn’t suit me, And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves, And satin sandals, and say we’ve no money for butter.
At age 20, we worry about what others think of us. At 40, we don’t care what they think of us. At 60, we discover they haven’t been thinking of us at all.
Perhaps middle-age is, or should be, a period of shedding shells; the shell of ambition, the shell of material accumulations and possessions, the shell of the ego.
The evening of a well spent life brings its lamps with it.
Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can’t quite name.
The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence and obsolescence.
Old age deprives the intelligent man only of qualities useless to wisdom.
Age is a tyrant who forbids at the penalty of life all the pleasures of youth.
To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it […]
