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The old are in a second childhood.
The old are in a second childhood.
I've never known a person who lives to 110 who is remarkable for anything else.
I've never known a person who lives to 110 who is remarkable for anything else.
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
Middle age . . . when a man is at the peak of his yearning power. -Wall Stress Journal.
Middle age . . . when a man is at the peak of his yearning power. -Wall Stress Journal.
The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements (as well as one's deepest failures) is a definite symptom of read more
The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements (as well as one's deepest failures) is a definite symptom of maturity.
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),
A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of read more
A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in read more
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.
And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried
in a good old age.
And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried
in a good old age.