No one could be more happy than a man who has never known affliction
Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
Now Abraham and Sarah were old and well stricken in age; and it ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women.
Every man over forty is a scoundrel.
Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.
The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.
I find that a man is as old as his work. If his work keeps him from moving forward, he will look forward with the work.
No man is ever old enough to know better.
A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.
The three ages of man: youth, middle age, and "You're looking wonderful!"
One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.
No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.
When a man of forty falls in love with a girl of twenty, it isn't her youth he is seeking but his own.
No man is ever old enough to know better.
Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that happen to a man. -Leon Trotsky.
A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.
Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form.
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.
The follies which a man regrets most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity. -Helen Rowland.
Middle age . . . when a man is at the peak of his yearning power. -Wall Stress Journal.
A man must have grown old and lived long in order to see how short life is. -Arthur Schopenhauer.
The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain.
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.