You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

The years teach much which the days never knew.

The years teach much which the days never knew.

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

If youth knew; if age could. -Henri Estienne.

If youth knew; if age could. -Henri Estienne.

You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.

You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.

The follies which a man regrets most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he had the read more

The follies which a man regrets most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity. -Helen Rowland.

Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese

Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese

On one occasion some one put a very little wine into a wine
cooler, and said that it was read more

On one occasion some one put a very little wine into a wine
cooler, and said that it was sixteen years old. "It is very
small for its age," said Gnathaena.

Old age doth in sharp pains abound;
We are belabored by the gout,
Our blindness is a read more

Old age doth in sharp pains abound;
We are belabored by the gout,
Our blindness is a dark profound,
Our deafness each one laughs about.
Then reason's light with falling ray
Doth but a trembling flicker cast.
Honor to age, ye children pay!
Alas! my fifty years are past!