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You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings read more
Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.
As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping read more
As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left.
The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left.
. . . Years steal
Fire from the mind, as vigor from the limb;
And life's enchanted read more
. . . Years steal
Fire from the mind, as vigor from the limb;
And life's enchanted cut but sparkles near the brim.
Age, like distance lends a double charm.
Age, like distance lends a double charm.
When a man of forty falls in love with a girl of twenty, it isn't her youth he is seeking read more
When a man of forty falls in love with a girl of twenty, it isn't her youth he is seeking but his own.