Life and Existence

Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

Sometimes the best helping hand you can get is a good, firm push.

No man can be called friendless when he has God and the companionship of good books.

The true tomb of the dead is the heart of the living.

The true tomb of the dead is the heart of the living.

Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out.

Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.

You can close your eyes to reality but not to memories.

We do not remember days; we remember moments.

Count reminiscences like money .

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.

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.

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

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.

Old age lives minutes slowly, hours quickly; childhood chews hours and swallows minutes.

Old age lives minutes slowly, hours quickly; childhood chews hours and swallows minutes.

Old age lives minutes slowly, hours quickly; childhood chews hours and swallows minutes.

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

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