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“No wise man ever wished to be younger.”
“By the time a man gets well into his seventies his continued existence is a mere miracle.”
“Every man who has lived his life to the full should by the time his senior years are reached have established a reserve inventory of unfinished thinking.”
“One trouble with growing older is that it gets progressively tougher to find a famous historical figure who didn't amount to much when he was your age.”
“Forty is the old age of youth fifty is the youth of old age.”
“For the unlearned old age is winter for the learned it is the season of the harvest.”
“My opportunities were still there nay they multiplied tenfold but the strength and youth to cope with them began to fail and to need eking out with the shifty cunning of experience.”
“I must be getting absent-minded. Whenever I complain that things aren't what they used to be I always forget to include myself.”
“We grow neither better nor worse as we get old but more like ourselves”
“Golden lads and girls all must As chimney-sweepers come to dust.”
“Middle age is youth without its levity And age without decay.”
“And he (King David) died in a good old age full of days riches and honour.”
“It's never too late to have a fling For autumn is just as nice as spring And it's never too late to fall in love.”
“I never dared be radical when young For fear it would make me conservative when old.”
“Growing old - it's not nice but it's interesting.”
“If you think that I am going to bother myself again before I die about social improvement or read any of those stinking upward and onwarders - you err - I mean to have some good out of being old.”
“They tell you that you'll lose your mind when you grow older. What they don't tell you is that you won't miss it very much.”
“Old age is by nature rather talkative.”
“I have learned little from the years that fly but I have wrung the colour from the years.”
“Old age especially an honoured old age has so great authority that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.”
