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In youth we run into difficulties; in old age difficulties run into us. -Josh Billings.
In youth we run into difficulties; in old age difficulties run into us. -Josh Billings.
When a man of forty falls in love with a girl of twenty, it isn't her youth he is seeking read more
When a man of forty falls in love with a girl of twenty, it isn't her youth he is seeking but his own.
Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by read more
Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.
Life begins at 40 -- but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story read more
Life begins at 40 -- but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.
If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.
If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.
Age, like distance lends a double charm.
Age, like distance lends a double charm.
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep read more
To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.
Age ... is a matter of feeling, not of years.
Age ... is a matter of feeling, not of years.
