Preparation for old age should begin not later than one’s teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.
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- Lack of something to feel important about is almost the greatest tragedy a man may have.
- I’m 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I’d only be 48. That’s the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40.
- When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
- Study until twenty five, investigate until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.
- I venerate old age; and I love not the man who can look without emotion upon the sunset of life, when the dusk of evening begins to gather over the watery eye, and the shadows of twilight grow broader and deeper upon the understanding.
- Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.