“Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age.”
Victor Hugo
“A man's character never changes radically from youth to old age. What happens is that circumstances bring out characteristics which have not been obvious to the superficial observer.”
Hesketh Pearson
“The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young”
Oscar Wilde
“Old age ain't no place for sissies.”
Henry Louis Mencken
“Old age means realizing you will never own all the dogs you wanted to”
Joe Gores
“Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age; and if you understand that old age has wisdom for its food, you will so conduct yourself in youth that your old age will not lack for nourishment.”
Leonardo da Vinci
