What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.
In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose.
Here comes 40. I'm feeling my age and I've ordered the Ferrari. I'm going to get the whole mid-life crisis package.
Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.
Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.
It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.
Youngsters of the age of two and three are endowed with extraordinary strength. They can lift a dog twice their own weight and dump him into the bathtub.
Nature gives you the face you have at twenty it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.
He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.
To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. 'Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after you.
I understood at a very early age that in nature, I felt everything I should feel in church but never did. Walking in the woods, I felt in touch with the universe and with the spirit of the universe.
We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination.
Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.
