Source: Essays on old age and friendship
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“The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.”
“There is no one so old as to not think they may live a day longer.”
Source: Three Books of Offices; Or, Moral Duties: Also His Cato Major, an Essay on Old Age; Laelius, an Essay on Friendship; Paradoxes; Scipio's Dream; and Letter to Quintus on the Duties of a Magistrate. Literally Translated, with Notes, Designed to Exhibit a Comparative View of the Opinions of Cicero, and Those of Modern Moralists and Ethical Philosophers
“You'll live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to.”
Source: Mr. Maugham Himself
“We seem to have reached the age where life stops giving us things and starts taking them away.”
“I guess sometimes the past just catches up to you, whether you want it to or not.”
“You want a bit of life before it's all over. It takes all the guilt away.”
“You're never too old to be young, and never too young to be old.”
“Just because I've stopped working doesn't mean that I've stopped being helpful.”
“Success can only be measured in terms of distance traveled.”
Source: The Cost of Living: Early and Uncollected Stories
“Youth, have no pity; leave no farthing here For age to invest in compromise and fear.”
Source: Edna St. Vincent Millay: Selected Poems
Source: The Confessions of an Elderly Lady
“The older I get the funnier I get...Think what I'll save in not having my face lifted.”
Source: Women in Comedy
“You can't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again.”
“But wait!!! You MAKE it to 60. You didn't think you would!”
“So you BECOME 21, TURN 30, PUSH 40, REACH 50 and MAKE it to 60.”
“There is no old age. There is, as there always was, just you.”