Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
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- The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
- When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch’s statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
- Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
- What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one’s faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one’s memories.
- It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who has lost it.
- A man who is a politician at forty is a statesman at three score and ten. It is at this age, when he would be too old to be a clerk or a gardener or a police-court magistrate, that he is ripe to govern a country.