To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the read more

To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be.

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart

That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart

A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.

A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.

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.

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.

You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.

You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your read more

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.

Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.