“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
“In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.”
Beverly Sills
“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
“Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.”
Evelyn Waugh
“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
“What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.”
Gustave Flaubert
“Constant travel brings old age upon a man; a horse becomes old by being constantly tied up; lack of sexual contact with her husband brings old age upon a woman; and garments become old through being left in the sun.”
Chanakya
