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“Old age especially an honoured old age has so great authority that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.”
“To me old age is always fifteen years older than I am.”
“First you forget names then you forget faces then you forget to pull your zipper up then you forget to pull your zipper down.”
“The individual succumbs but he does not die if he has left something to mankind.”
“So lively brisk old fellow don't let age get you down. White hairs or not you can still be a lover.”
“Let us respect gray hairs especially our own.”
“An old codger rampant and still learning.”
“When pain ends gain ends too.”
“When I was very young I was disgracefully intolerant but when I passed the thirty mark I prided myself on having learned the beautiful lesson that all things were good and equally good. That howeve...”
“It is the fear of being as dependent as a young child while not being loved as a child is loved but merely being kept alive against one's will.”
“Happy the man who gains sagacity in youth but thrice happy he who retains the fervour of youth in age.”
“Your old men shall dream dreams your young men shall see visions.”
“I am long on ideas but short on time. I expect to live only about a hundred years.”
“To know how to grow old is the master-work of wisdom and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.”
“When you reach your sixties you have to decide whether you're going to be a sot or an ascetic. In other words if you want to go on working after you're sixty some degree of asceticism is inevitable.”
“Yes I'm 68 but when I was a boy I was too poor to smoke so knock off ten years. That makes me 58. And since I never developed the drinking habit you can knock off ten more years. So I'm 48 - in the...”
“Life has got to be lived - that's all there is to it. At seventy I would say the advantage is that you take life more calmly. You know that 'this too shall pass!'”
“Senescence begins And middle age ends The day your descendants Outnumber your friends.”
“On the day of his death in his eightieth year Elliot 'the Apostle of the Indians ' was found teaching an Indian child at his bedside. 'Why not to rest from your labours now?' asked a friend. 'Becau...”
“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.”
