Lord, lord! How subject we old men are to this vice of lying. William Shakespeare Age, Aging, Old age You May Also Like Our nation’s long neglect of minorities whose skin is dark is perhaps only a little worse than our neglect of another minority whose hair is white. By Lyndon B. Johnson Neglect, Old age, Prejudice, Racism When I grow up, I want to be a little boy. By Joseph Heller Age, Aging, Middle Age In old age … we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived. By Knut Hamsun Age, Aging, Old age I was born in 1962. And the room next to me was 1963 . . . By Joan Rivers Age, Aging, Middle Age We grow too soon old and too late smart. By Pennsylvania Dutch saying Age, Aging, Old age, Wisdom There ain’t nothin’ an ol’ man can do but bring me a message from a young one. By Jackie “Moms” Mabley Age, Aging, Old age You May Also Like from William Shakespeare O, that this too too solid flesh would melt . . . By William Shakespeare Diet, Dieting You see, my good wenches, how men of merit are sought after; the undeserver may sleep, when the man of action is call’d on. By William Shakespeare Merit I will praise any man that will praise me. By William Shakespeare Praise To sleep, perchance to dream. By William Shakespeare Dreams, Rest, Sleep Ripeness is all. By William Shakespeare Time, Timing, Wise But screw your courage to the sticking-place, / and we’ll not fail. By William Shakespeare Courage, Failure
Our nation’s long neglect of minorities whose skin is dark is perhaps only a little worse than our neglect of another minority whose hair is white. By Lyndon B. Johnson Neglect, Old age, Prejudice, Racism
In old age … we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived. By Knut Hamsun Age, Aging, Old age
There ain’t nothin’ an ol’ man can do but bring me a message from a young one. By Jackie “Moms” Mabley Age, Aging, Old age
You see, my good wenches, how men of merit are sought after; the undeserver may sleep, when the man of action is call’d on. By William Shakespeare Merit
But screw your courage to the sticking-place, / and we’ll not fail. By William Shakespeare Courage, Failure
