Now I was stuck and could feel the tide of years suddenly beginning to rise around me.

A man that is young in years may be old in hours if he have lost no time.

[ Old men go to death; death comes to young men. ]

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that happen to a man.

A young man who is unable to commit a folly is already an old man.

For in misery men grow old quickly.

Time gliding by without our knowledge cheats us, and nothing can be swifter than the years.

Young men soon give and soon forget affronts; Old age is slow in both.

The wind and sun, the salt water, the hard work aged a body rapidly, and when I would look at the old man who clammed, I was too young to sense the wisdom their years on the water had bestowed upon them and saw only what I did not want to become.

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

Old age is the most unexpected of all things that can happen to a man.

There is little to be said of seniority. It is evident that when men grow older they acquire experience, unless they are completely idle, stupid, or too obstinate to learn anything. But there are many types of old men, and no one has ever maintained that, in order to pick out the best of the, it is enough to look at their birth certificates. Therefore appointments have to be made.

Some old men, by continually praising the time of their youth, would almost persuade us that there were no fools in those days; but unluckily they are left themselves for examples.

The years teach us much, which the days never knew.