Old age has deformities enough of its own; do not add to it the deformity of vice.
—Cato
Showing posts with label old age. Show all posts
Showing posts with label old age. Show all posts
Sunday, July 27, 2025
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Wednesday, December 06, 2017
Post #2463
Though I look old, yet I am strong and
lusty;
For in my youth I never did apply
Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood;
Nor did not with unbashful forehead woo
The means of weakness and debility:
Therefore my age is as a lusty winter.
Frosty, but kindly.
—William Shakespeare
Monday, February 08, 2016
Post #2006
As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.
—Cicero
Thursday, April 23, 2015
Post #1799
Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.
—John Adams
—John Adams
Monday, February 02, 2015
Post #1741
It is a characteristic of old age to find the progress of time accelerated. The less one accomplishes in a given time, the shorter does the retrospect appear.
—Wilhelm von Humboldt
—Wilhelm von Humboldt
A deadly viper once bit a hole snipe's hide; But 'twas the viper, not the snipe, that died.
- dave
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