Elderly proverbs

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◆ To remain young one must change. The perpetual campus hero is not a young man but an old boy.

- Alexander Chase98

◆ It is always in season for old men to learn.

- Aeschylus98

◆ Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.

- Ira Gershwin98

◆ Never let them see you in public after you've turned thirty-five. You're finished if you do!

- Norma Shearer98

◆ Is not old wine wholesomest, old pippins toothsomest, old wood burns brightest, old linen wash whitest? Old soldiers, sweetheart, are surest, and old lovers are soundest

- John Webster98

◆ The answer to old age is to keep one's mind busy and to go on with one's life as if it were interminable. I always admired Chekhov for building a new house when he was dying of tuberculosis.

- Leon Edel98

◆ You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.

- Judith Viorst98

◆ It (The New York Times) reads like it was edited by two elderly sociologists, one of whom has been dead for many years

- Garrison Keillor98

◆ Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.

- Louis Kronenberger98

◆ Old men need applause too

- Don Everly98

◆ The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty

- Napoleon Hill98

◆ There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent

- Michel De Montaigne98

◆ Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.

- Evelyn Waugh98

◆ Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask thy father, and he will shew thee; thy elders, and they will tell thee

- Bible98

◆ Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old

- Washington Irving98