“ It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit. ”
“ I find that a man is as old as his work. If his work keeps him from moving forward, he will look forward with the work. ”
“ The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified. ”
“ What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease. ”
“ Old age is a shipwreck. ”
“ We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave. ”
“ Life is one long decay, no? There's a lot of beauty in it. Like the patina in an old city. ”
“ He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled. ”
“ A birthday is just another day where you go to work and people give you love. Age is just a state of mind, and you are as old as you think you are. You have to count your blessings and be happy. ”
“ When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory. ”
“ Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you'd never complete your life, would you? You'd never wholly know you. ”
“ We're all comedy fans in my family. My parents mainly wouldn't let me watch stuff that was either annoying to them, or just garbage. My dad wouldn't let us watch 'The Flintstones' if he was home, because he said it was a rip-off of 'The Honeymooners'. But he would let us stay up really late in the summer and watch old 'Honeymooners'. ”
“ New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements... the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture. ”
“ If anyone thinks they'd rather be in a different part of history, they're probably not a very good student of history. Life sucked in the old days. People knew very little, and you were likely to die at a young age of some horrible disease. You'd probably have no teeth by now. It would be particularly awful if you were a woman. ”
“ Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses. ”
“ My life, I realize suddenly, is July. Childhood is June, and old age is August, but here it is, July, and my life, this year, is July inside of July. ”
“ When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality. ”
“ In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them. ”
“ Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms. ”
“ Youth is a blunder Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret. ”