Josh Billings Quotes About Age
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I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.
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Pedigrees seldom improve by age; the grandson is too often a weak infringement on the grandsire's parent.
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I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.
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It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.
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The easiest thing for our friends to discover in us, and the hardest thing for us to discover in ourselves, is that we are growing old.
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