866 quotes found
“Middle age snuffs out more talent than even wars or sudden deaths do.”
“Old age is the Outpatient's Dept of purgatory.”
“Old age takes away from us what we have inherited and gives us what we have earned.”
“The difference between being an elder statesman And posing successfully as an elder statesman Is practically negligible.”
“The old repeat themselves and the young have nothing to say. The boredom is mutual.”
“There is many a good tune played on an old fiddle.”
“Time goes by: reputation increases ability declines.”
“To keep the heart unwrinkled to be hopeful kindly cheerful reverent -that is to triumph over old age.”
“We do not die wholly at our deaths: we have moldered away gradually long before. Faculty after faculty interest after interest attachment after attachment disappear: we are torn from ourselves wh...”
“Wrinkles - the service stripes of life.”
“To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.”
“One of the delights known to age and beyond the grasp of youth is that of 'not going'!”
“A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating.”
“The role of a retired person is no longer to possess one.”
“Middle age: when you're sitting at home on Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.”
“No Spring nor Summer beauty hath such grace As I have seen in one Autumnal face.”
“If you live long enough the venerability factor creeps in you get accused of things you never did and praised for virtues you never had.”
“I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left.”
“Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form.”
“Old age is an island surrounded by death.”
