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What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.
Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.
Dying while you are young is a great boon in your old age.
Dying while you are young is a great boon in your old age.
The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.
The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.
Old age comes at a bad time. -San Banducci.
Old age comes at a bad time. -San Banducci.
A man must have grown old and lived long in order to see how short life is. -Arthur Schopenhauer.
A man must have grown old and lived long in order to see how short life is. -Arthur Schopenhauer.
Middle age is when your old classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you.
Middle age is when your old classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you.
By candle-light nobody would have taken you for above
five-and-twenty.
By candle-light nobody would have taken you for above
five-and-twenty.
It is always in season for old men to learn.
It is always in season for old men to learn.