It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.
I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.
I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.
The easiest thing for our friends to discover in us, and the hardest thing for us to discover in ourselves, is that we are growing old.
Pedigrees seldom improve by age; the grandson is too often a weak infringement on the grandsire's parent.
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