To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
Herman MelvilleRead
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To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
Please don't retouch my wrinkles. It took me so long to earn them.
There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.
We can't reach old age by another man's road.
They tell you that you'll lose your mind when you grow older. What they don't tell you is that you won't miss it very much.
Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow.
Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.
At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.
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