old

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.

To an old man any place that's warm is homeland.

He had come to that time in his life (it varies for every man) when a human being gives himself over to his demon or to his genius according to a mysterious law which orders him either to destroy or to surpass himself.

Wrinkles - the service stripes of life.

I am 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were 15 months in every year I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women for example I think they deserve to have more than 12 years between the ages of 28 and 40.

The old repeat themselves and the young have nothing to say. The boredom is mutual.

An old man loved is Winter with flowers.

The young man knows the rules but the old man knows the exceptions.

I really believe that more harm is done by old men who cling to their influence than by young men who anticipate it.

He that has seen both sides of fifty has lived to little purpose if he has no other views of the world than he had when he was much younger.

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."

To keep the heart unwrinkled to be hopeful kindly cheerful reverent -that is to triumph over old age.

Old birds are hard to pluck.

It is always in season for old men to learn.

The young feel tired at the end of an action The old at the beginning.

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!'

One of the delights known to age and beyond the grasp of youth is that of 'not going'!

All would live long but none would be old.