Ye old men, brief is the space of life allotted to you; pass it as
pleasantly as ye can, not grieving from morning till eve. Since time
knows not how to preserve our hopes, but, attentive to its own concerns,
flies away.--_Euripides._
The Grecian ladies counted their age from their marriage, not their
birth.--_Homer._
The vices of old age have the stiffness of it too; and as it is the
unfittest time to learn in, so the unfitness of it to unlearn will be
found much greater.--_South._
Old men's eyes are like old men's memories; they are strongest for
things a long way off.--_George Eliot._
Serene, and safe from passion's stormy rage, how calm they glide into
the port of age!--_Shenstone._
Providence gives us notice by sensible declensions, that we may
disengage from the world by degrees.--_Jeremy Collier._
Age oppresses by the same degrees that it instructs us, and permits not
that our mortal members, which are frozen with our years, should retain
the vigor of our youth.--_Dryden._
Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the
contempt inspired by vice, for age whitens only the hair.--_J. Petit
Senn._
Up to forty a woman has only forty springs in her heart. After that age
she has only forty winters.--_Arsene Houssaye._
I love everything that's old. Old friends, old times, old manners, old
books, old wine.--_Goldsmith._