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Wine comes in at the mouth And love comes in at the eye; That's all we shall know for truth Before we grow old and die. Read Summary

When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep. Read Summary

What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories. Read Summary

Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth. Read Summary

Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long. Read Summary

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young. Read Summary

Demographics show that we are entering a battle between young and old. I call it the 'Age War.' The young want to hang onto their money to grow their families, businesses, and wealth. The old want the tax and investment dollars of the young to sustain their old age. Read Summary

Lack of education, old age, bad health or discrimination - these are causes of poverty, and the way to attack it is to go to the root. Read Summary

There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course. Read Summary

It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age. Read Summary

The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured. Read Summary

Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age. Read Summary

Nevertheless, whether in occurrences lasting days, hours or mere minutes at a time, I have experienced happiness often, and have had brief encounters with it in my later years, even in old age. Read Summary

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do. Read Summary

Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure? Read Summary

Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought. Read Summary

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice. Read Summary

It is not well to make great changes in old age. Read Summary

Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret. Read Summary

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm. Read Summary