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 | "Grow old with me! The best is yet to be." | |
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Robert Browning
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| "How earthy old people become ? mouldy as the grave! Their wisdom
smacks of the earth. There is no foretaste of immortality in it. They
remind me of earthworms and mole crickets." | |
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Henry David Thoreau
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| "I don"t feel old. I don"t feel anything till noon. That"s when it"s
time for my nap." | |
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Bob Hope
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| "I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older
than I am." | |
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Francis Bacon
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| "Old age brings along with its uglinesses the comfort that you will
soon be out of it, ? which ought to be a substantial relief to such
discontented pendulums as we are." | |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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| "Old age is an island surrounded by death." | |
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Juan Montalvo
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| "Old age is fifteen years older than I am." | |
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
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| "Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their
inability to set a bad example." | |
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François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld
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| "People who say you"re just as old as you feel are all wrong,
fortunately." | |
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Russell Baker
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| "Some men never seem to grow old. Always active in thought, always
ready to adopt new ideas, they are never chargeable with foggyism.
Satisfied, yet ever dissatisfied, settled, yet ever unsettled, they always
enjoy the best of what is, are the first to find the best of what will
be." | |
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William Shakespeare
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| "The evening of a well-spent life brings its lamps with it." | |
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Joseph Joubert
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| "The older I get, the better I used to be." | |
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Unknown
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| "The older one grows, the more one likes indecency." | |
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Virginia Woolf
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| "To me - old age is always ten years older than I am." | |
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John Burroughs
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| "To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am." | |
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Bernard Mannes Baruch
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| "Verily, to honor an old man is showing respect to God." | |
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Prophet Muhammad
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| "You can"t help getting older, but you don"t have to get old." | |
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George Burns
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