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“An old man concludeth from his knowing mankind that they know him too and that maketh him very wary.”
“But Lord Crist! whan that it remembreth me Upon my yowthe and on my jolitee It tickleth me aboute myn herte roote. Unto this day it dooth myn herte boote That I have had my world as in my tyme. But...”
“Grow old with me! The best is yet to be The last of life for which the first was made: Our times are in his hands Who sayeth "a whole I plant Youth shows but half Trust God see all nor be afraid."”
“I refuse to admit that I am more than 52 even if that makes my sons illegitimate.”
“If I'd known I was gonna live this long (100 years) I'd have taken better care of myself.”
“If the young only knew if the old only could.”
“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.”
“One of the delights known to age and beyond the grasp of youth is that of 'not going'!”
“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.”
“It is time to be old To take in sail.”
“Old age is a time of humiliations the most disagreeable of which for me is that I cannot work long at sustained high pressure with no leaks in concentration.”
“Dignity high station or great riches are in some sort necessary to old men in order to keep the younger at a distance who are otherwise too apt to insult them upon the score of their age.”
“The young feel tired at the end of an action The old at the beginning.”
“Before you contradict an old man my fair friend you should endeavour to understand him.”
“Zsa Zsa Gabor when asked which of the Gabor women was the oldest said "She'll never admit it but I believe it is Mama." When men grow virtuous in their old age they only make a sacrifice to God of ...”
“When you are forty half of you belongs to the past. . . And when you are seventy nearly all of you.”
“Forty is the old age of youth fifty is the youth of old age.”
“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.”
