Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.
Every old man complains of the growing depravity of the world, of the petulance and insolence of the rising generation.
Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity.
I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
Of all the wastes of human ignorance perhaps the most extravagant and costly to human growth has been the waste of the distinctive powers of womanhood after the child-bearing age.
Old age is life's parody.
If you want a thing done well, get a couple of old broads to do it.
Old age is - a lot of crossed off names in an address book.
To exclude from positions of trust and command all those below the age of 44 would have kept Jefferson from writing the Declaration of Independence, Washington from commanding the Continental Army, Madison from fathering the Constitution, Hamilton from serving as secretary of the treasury, Clay from being elected speaker of the House and Christopher Columbus from discovering America.
A man must have grown old and lived long in order to see how short life is.
Have a care lest the wrinkles in the face extend to the heart.
Depend upon it, a man never experiences such pleasure or grief after fourteen years as he does before, unless in some cases, in his first lovemaking, when the sensation is new to him
My first advice (on how not to grow old) would be to choose you ancestors carefully.
Being seventy is not a sin. It's not a joy, either.
The monumental pomp of age Was with this goodly personage; A stature undepressed in size, Unbent, which rather seemed to rise In open victory o'er the weight Of seventy years, to loftier height.
How blest is he who crowns in shades like these A youth of labour with an age of ease!
There is no place in which to hide when Age comes seeking for his bride.
Boys must not have th' ambitious care of men, Nor men the weak anxieties of age.
Age and youth look upon life from the opposite ends of the telescope; it is exceedingly long,--it is exceedingly short.
True wisdom, indeed, springs from the wide brain which is fed from the deep heart; and it is only when age warms its withering conceptions at the memory of its youthful fire, when it makes experience serve aspiration, and knowledge illumine the difficult paths through which thoughts thread their way into facts,--it is only then that age becomes broadly and nobly wise.
There is a quiet repose and steadiness about the happiness of age, if the life has been well spent. Its feebleness is not painful. The nervous system has lost its acuteness. But, in mature years we feel that a burn, a scald, a cut, is more tolerable than it was in the sensitive period of youth.
Thirst of power and of riches now bear sway, The passion and infirmity of age.
You are never too old to become younger!
Age isn't how old you are but how old you feel.
One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.
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