Some further thoughts from the Great & the Good on ageing…
Do not resent growing old. Many are denied the privilege.
Anonymous
None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.
Henry David Thoreau
Old age is 15 years older than I am.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind,
it doesn't matter.
Jack Benny
Old people like to give good advice, as solace for no longer
being able to provide bad examples.
La Rochefoucauld
Every man desires to live long; but no man would be old.
Jonathan Swift
Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.
Garson Kanin
Grow old along with me!
The best is yet to be.
The last of life, for which the first was made.
Robert Browning
I am not young enough to know everything.
Oscar Wilde
Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.
Benjamin Franklin
To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love. Alan Bleasdale
I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.
Agatha Christie
The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.
English proverb
As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining years are among the sweetest in a man's life, and I maintain that, even when they have reached the extreme limit,
they have their pleasure still.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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