Middle age went by while I was mourning for my lost youth.
My taking a seat on the Council of the Fathers caused a desperate fluttering among my ghosts.
Old age: I fall asleep during the funerals of my friends.
Youth demands more than ordinary life. Age clings to it.
The young break rules for fun. The old for profit.
Old age learns about less after a lifetime of more.
Age: I go slower as time goes faster.
Staid middle age loves the hurricane passions of opera.
The noisy vacancy of youth, the quiet vacancy of age.
Age must give way to youth, no doubt. But not yet, not yet.
In middle age, I practiced feeling old, but the real thing has been a rude surprise.
The wisdom of age: don't stop walking.
Growth provides novel experiences for youth; decay the same, alas, for age.
An old man drinks tea and reads the newspaper--forgetting age for a moment.
After ages of bombast, the rhetoric of virtue has become ironic and shy.
As an elder I mistrust the wisdom of age.
After sixty, the self-questioning of middle age is obsolete.
Old age likes indecency. It's a sign of life.
Thank God for the passing of the discomforts and vile cuisine of the age of chivalry!
My mentors grow old and foolish. I am afraid.
With age, I have become both more pious and more shameless.
Dirty old men, ignoring society, continue to follow nature.
Some eras worship infancy; some, the aged. None as yet has adored middle age.
With age, comfort becomes more seductive than beauty.
In the present age, a man with harmonious ideas is regarded as out of touch.
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