1. It is always in season for old man to learn.
-Aeschylus, Age
2. Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle; Old Age a regret.
-Disraeli, Coningsby
3. To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom,
And one of the most difficult chapters in the great art-of
living.
-Amiel
4. Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to
trust, and old authors to read.
-Quoted by Bacon,
Apothegm
5. At 20 years of age
the will reigns, at 30 the wit; at 40 the judgement.
-Franklin, Poor Richard's
Almanac
6. If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be
written upon heart. The spirit should not grow old.
-James A. Garfield
7. The riders in a race do not stop short when they reach the
goal. There is a little finishing canter before coming to a standstill. There is
time to hear kind voice of friends and to say one's self: "The work is done".
-Holmes II, Speech on
his 90th birthday
8. Study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I
would have him retired on a double allowance.
-William Osler
9. In youth the days are short and the years are long; in old age the years are short and the days
long.
-Panin
10. The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be
fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
-Psalms. XC. 10
11. The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
-Schopenhauer
12. Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale
Her infinite variety.
-Shakespeare, Antony
and Cleopatra. Act II.
Sc. 2
13. An old man is twice a child.
-Shakespeare, Hamlet.
Act II. Sc. 2
14. The old believe everything: the middle age suspect everything: the young know everything.
-Wilde
