“To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age”
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“To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age”
“When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age”
“While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be”
“Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young ”
“I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel ”
“Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul”
“None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm ”
“Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age”
“Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought”
“Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive”
“Some people reach the age of sixty before others”
“My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me”
“The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped”
“If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old”
“Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success”
“Everything I know I learned after I was thirty”
“A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating”
“Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.”
“Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing ”
“Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience. ”