Old age is fifteen years older than I am.

Old age is fifteen years older than I am.

My days are in the yellow leaf;
The flowers and fruits of love are gone;
The worm, read more

My days are in the yellow leaf;
The flowers and fruits of love are gone;
The worm, the canker, and the grief
Are mine alone!
- Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron),

We get too soon old and too late smart. -Pennsylvania Dutch proverb.

We get too soon old and too late smart. -Pennsylvania Dutch proverb.

Never too old to learn. -Latin proverb.

Never too old to learn. -Latin proverb.

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.

If youth knew; if age could. -Henri Estienne.

If youth knew; if age could. -Henri Estienne.

The old are in a second childhood.

The old are in a second childhood.

One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from read more

One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

Consider well the proportion of things. It is better to be a young June bug, than an old bird of read more

Consider well the proportion of things. It is better to be a young June bug, than an old bird of paradise. -Mark Twain.