Life and Existence

Memory is the diary we all carry about with us.

After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.

After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.

A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.

When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

I speak truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare; and I dare a little the more, as I grow older.

What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel just as good as ever.

Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel just as good as ever.

Whatever a man’s age may be, he can reduce it several years by putting a bright-colored flower in his buttonhole.

The mask, given time, comes to be the face itself.

The mask, given time, comes to be the face itself.

Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.

As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.

What the heart knows today, the head will understand tomorrow.

What we do not understand we do not possess.

The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.

Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.

Reason deceives us; conscience, never.

The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.