The gravity of the earth is so strong that the old grey man walks crooked.
An old friend met in a far country is like rain after drought.
Women are as beautiful as flowers when they are forty years old.
An old error has more friends than a new truth.
He who wants a new world must first buy the old.
Take a young woman for the pleasure of possessing her until she is old.
When the cat gets too old, the mice are not afraid any more.
A man need not look in your mouth to know how old you are.
A new broom sweeps clean, but an old broom knows the corners.
Lola writes in her notebook: Leaf-fleas are even worse. Someone said, They don't bite people, because people don't have leaves. Lola writes, When the sun is beating down, they bite everything, even the wind. And we all have leaves. Leaves fall off wh...
The earth is large and old enough to teach us modesty.
People seem to overlook an old man losing his mind if he occasionally made light of it.
Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.
A person of little knowledge Grows old as a plough-ox grows old. His fleshes increases; His wisdom does not increase.
I am a beast until I love as God doth love.
Old age is not a limitation or that your time have expired. Retirement is not that you are tired.You have more experience
... and I experienced the bitter helplessness of a taunted old man dying to be whole again.
(God) being the old man invented in order to, and with whom to, hold long conversations.
Choose old people for enemies. They die. You win.
No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.
That’s the duty of the old, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old.
