“There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent”
Michel de Montaigne
“As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.”
Beverly Sills
“Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.”
Evelyn Waugh
“Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.”
Elvis Presley
“What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.”
Gustave Flaubert
“A man over ninety is a great comfort to all his elderly neighbors: he is a picket-guard at the extreme outpost; and the young folks of sixty and seventy feel that the enemy must get by him before he can come near their camp.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes
