What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.
Whatever poet, orator, or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.
When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.
When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am.
When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch's statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at twenty, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch the waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at eighty.
When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over.
When we are young we take pains to be agreeable, and when we are old we take pains not to be disagreeable.
When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.
When you get to fifty-two food becomes more important than sex.
When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.
When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity — but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.
When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.
Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.
Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing child-like appetite of what's next, and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from men and from the infinite, so long are you young.
While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.
While we look not a that things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. [2 Corinthians 4:18]
Who soweth good seed shall surely reap; The year grows rich as it groweth old, And life's latest sands are its sands of gold!
With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time's malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day!
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