“A man over ninety is a great comfort to all his elderly neighbors: he is a picket-guard at the extreme outpost; and the young folks of sixty and seventy feel that the enemy must get by him before he can come near their camp”
“A man over ninety is a great comfort to all his elderly neighbors: he is a picket-guard at the extreme outpost; and the young folks of sixty and seventy feel that the enemy must get by him before he can come near their camp”
“Everyone is the age of their heart”
“At 20 years of age the will reigns; at 30 the wit; and at 40 the judgment”
“We turn not older with years, but newer every day.”
“Old people are fond of giving good advice; it consoles them for no longer being capable of setting a bad example”
“To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.”
“A woman's always younger than a man at equal years”