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It takes a long time to become young.
It takes a long time to become young.
Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative. -Maurice Chevalier.
Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative. -Maurice Chevalier.
Life is a long lesson in humility. -James M. Barrie.
Life is a long lesson in humility. -James M. Barrie.
We get too soon old and too late smart. -Pennsylvania Dutch proverb.
We get too soon old and too late smart. -Pennsylvania Dutch proverb.
. . . 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.
To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score read more
To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years, and take rank, not as a prophet, but as an unteachable brat, well birched and none the wiser.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.
The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.
