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  ...not take the faults of our youth into our old age; for old age brings with it its own defects.--GOETHE.
Learn to live well, or fairly make your will; You've play'd, and lov'd, and ate, and drank your fill; Walk sober off, before a sprightlier age Comes titt'ring on, and shoves you from the stage. --POPE.
If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should not grow old.--JAMES A. GARFIELD. Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.   --VICTOR HUGO.
Remember that some of the brightest drops in the chalice of life may still remain for us in old age. The last draught which a kind Providence gives us to drink, though near the bottom of the cup, may, as is said of the draught of the Roman of old, have at the very bottom, instead of dregs, most costly pearls.--W.A. NEWMAN.
Begin to patch up thine old body for heaven.--SHAKESPEARE.
Few people know how to be old.--LA ROCHEFOUCAULD.
When men grow virtuous in their...   Hugo, Victor

Excerpt from Many Thoughts of Many Minds A Treasury of Quotations from the Literature of Every Land and Every Age · This quote is tagged Age and Aging · Search on Google Books to find all references and sources for this quotation.

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