In the last few years everything I'd done up to sixty or so has seemed very childish.
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The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always asked to do things and you are not yet decrepit enough to turn them down.
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The young feel tired at the end of an action The old at the beginning.
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The difference between being an elder statesman And posing successfully as an elder statesman Is practically negligible.
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The historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence
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Old Deuteronomy's lived a long time;He's a Cat who has lived many lives in succession.He was famous in proverb and famous in rhymeA long while before ...
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Now that lilacs are in bloomShe has a bowl of lilacs in her roomAnd twists one in her fingers while she talks."Ah, my friend, you do not know, you do ...
