old

If the young only knew if the old only could.

An older author is constantly rediscovering himself in the more or less fossilized productions of his earlier years.

If I'd known I was gonna live this long (100 years) I'd have taken better care of myself.

Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?

How beautifully the leaves grow old. How full of light and colour are their last days.

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 age alias! that al wole envenyme Hath me biraft my beautee and my pith. Lat go farewel! the devel go therwith! The flour is goon ther is namoore to telle The bren as I best kan now most I selle.

The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people and greatly assists the circulation of their blood.

In the last few years everything I'd done up to sixty or so has seemed very childish.

Middle age is youth without its levity And age without decay.

A man of fifty looks as old as Santa Claus to a girl of twenty.

So lively brisk old fellow don't let age get you down. White hairs or not you can still be a lover.

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.

Many a man that couldn't direct ye to th' drug store on th' corner when he was thirty will get a respectful hearin' when age has further impaired his mind.

By the time a man gets well into his seventies his continued existence is a mere miracle.

Old age is an island surrounded by death.

A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating.

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 however was really laziness. Now thank goodness I've sorted out what matters and what doesn't. And I'm beginning to be intolerant again.

An old man concludeth from his knowing mankind that they know him too and that maketh him very wary.