Confucius on Age
Friday, August 29th, 2008Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.
- Confucius
Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.
- Confucius
There is still no cure for the common birthday.
- John Glenn
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
- George Bernard Shaw
There’s no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.
- Fay Weldon
He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it’s bottled.
- Gene Fowler
When you become senile, you won’t know it.
- Bill Cosby
I find that a man is as old as his work. If his work keeps him from moving forward, he will look forward with the work.
- William Ernest Hocking
Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.
- James Thurber
Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man’s lifetime income - which he then spends sending his son to college.
- Bill Vaughn
I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
- Francis Bacon