Old Age and Ageing
P. G. Wodehouse
THERE IS ONLY ONE CURE FOR GREY HAIR. IT WAS INVENTED BY A FRENCHMAN. IT IS CALLED THE GUILLOTINE.
Robert Burns
AGE MAY HAVE ONE SIDE, BUT ASSUREDLY YOUTH HAS THE OTHER. THERE IS NOTHING MORE CERTAIN THAN THAT BOTH ARE RIGHT, EXCEPT PERHAPS THAT BOTH ARE WRONG.
John Adams
Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.
Albert Einstein
I feel like an egg, of which only the shell remains; at 75 years old, one can’t expect anything else. One should prepare a person for his death.
Albert Einstein
In one’s youth every person and every event appear to be unique. With age, one becomes much more aware that similar events recur. Later on, one is less often delighted or surprised, but also less disappointed.
Albert Einstein
All of one’s contemporaries and aging friends are living in a delicate balance, and one feels that one’s own consciousness is no longer as brightly lit as it once was. But then, twilight with its more subdued colors has its charms as well.
George Bernard Shaw
Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.
Samuel Johnson
There is a wicked inclination in most people to suppose an old man decayed in his intellects. If a young or middle-aged man, when leaving a company, does not recollect where he laid his hat, it is nothing; but if the same inattention is discovered in an old man, people will shrug up their shoulders, and say, ‘His memory is going.’
