In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's read more

In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.

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.

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.

Old age is like flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.

Old age is like flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.

There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, we know read more

There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, we know it was much later.

The old -- like children -- talk to themselves, for they have reached that hopeless wisdom of experience which knows read more

The old -- like children -- talk to themselves, for they have reached that hopeless wisdom of experience which knows that though one were to cry it in the streets to multitudes, or whisper it in the kiss to one's beloved, the only ears that can ever hear one's secrets are one's own!

The crucial task of old age is balance: keeping just well enough, just brave enough, just gay and interested and read more

The crucial task of old age is balance: keeping just well enough, just brave enough, just gay and interested and starkly honest enough to remain a sentient human being.

The good die young - because they see it's no use living if you've got to be good.

The good die young - because they see it's no use living if you've got to be good.

Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form.

Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form.