“Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.”
Source: The Autobiography, and Other Writings: With Selections from Poor Richard's Almanac and Papers Relating to the Junto
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Source: The Art of Worldly Wisdom
“Time deals gently with me; and though I feel that I descend, the slope is easy.”
Source: The Works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld: In Two Volumes
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Thomas Hardy (Illustrated)
“To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us.”
“As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.”
Source: The complete English works
“You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.”
“To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.”
“When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.”
Source: Les Miserables Volume Two
“My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.”
Source: The Works of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. IX (in 12 Volumes)
“I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.”
“He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.”
Source: Either/or
“The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.”
“Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.”
Source: Mr. Maugham Himself
“Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.”
Source: Mr. Maugham Himself
“Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.”
“The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.”
Source: Prejudices: Third Series
“Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)
Source: The Coming of Age
“The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.”
“It takes a long time to become young.”
Source: Picasso
“Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.”
“Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.”
Source: Clouds of Witness