The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men.
You will recognize, my boy, the first sign of old age: it is when you go out into the streets of London and realize for the first time how young the policemen look.
They tell you that you'll lose your mind when you grow older. What they don't tell you is that you won't miss it very much.
Sixteen candles make a lovely light But not as bright as your eyes tonight
Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be,...
For he's a jolly good fellow, For he's a jolly good fellow, For he's a jolly good fellow, Which nobody can deny.
Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.
Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy.
There must be a day or two in a man's life when he is the precise age for something important.
In the midst of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.
If you survive long enough, you're revered-rather like an old building.
In a dream you are never eighty.
A man is getting old when he walks around a puddle instead of through it.
The first hundred years are the hardest.
A man is old when he can pass an apple orchard and not remember the stomachache.
Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.
To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.
Middle age is when you still believe you'll feel better in the morning.
One compensation of old age is that it excuses you from picnics.
Old age is not for sissies.
At middle age the soul should be opening up like a rose, not closing up like a cabbage.
Please don't retouch my wrinkles. It took me so long to earn them.
To see a young couple loving each other is no wonder, but to see an old couple loving each other is the best sight of all.
There are days of oldness, and then one gets young again.
We are so fond of one another, because our ailments are the same.
At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age.
My candle burns at both ends; It will not last the night; But, ah, my foes, and, oh, my friends- It gives a lovely light!
At seventy-seven it is time to be earnest.
What could be more beautiful than a dear old lady growing wise with age? Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.
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