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Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.

» François de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French Writerand philosopher

He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards.

» Georg C. Lichtenberg (1742-1799) German scientist, satirist and anglophile

Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

» George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Irish playwright, critic, political activist

He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise.

» George Herbert (1593-1632) British poet

Whether you are sixteen or over sixty, remember, understatement is the rule of a fine makeup artist.

» Helena Rubinstein (1870-1965) Polish Businessman

How earthy old people become -moldy as the grave! Their wisdom smacks of the earth. There is no foretaste of immortality in it. They remind me of earthworms and mole crickets.

» Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American naturalist, poet and philosopher, abolitionist

Old people love to give good advice to console themselves for no longer being able to set a bad example.

» François de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French Writerand philosopher

One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, a

» Georg C. Lichtenberg (1742-1799) German scientist, satirist and anglophile

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

» George Eliot (1819-1880) British novelist ['Middlemarch']

An old man loved is winter with flowers.

» German proverb (-)

Hard work keeps the wrinkles out of the mind and spirit.

» Helena Rubinstein (1870-1965) Polish Businessman

The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

» Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American naturalist, poet and philosopher, abolitionist

How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over. Yet most bad habits are tools to help us through life.

» Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) German philosopher and writer

Every man over forty is a scoundrel.

» George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Irish playwright, critic, political activist

In the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the same way as the tie of their cravats, there is always a good number who once meant to shape their own deeds and alter the world a little.

» George Eliot (1819-1880) British novelist ['Middlemarch']

Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.

» Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) British journalist, novelist and poet ['Father Brown', 'Orthodoxy', 'The Everlasting Man']

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

» Henri Frédéric Amiel (1821-1881) Swiss philosopher and writer

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

» Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American naturalist, poet and philosopher, abolitionist

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