He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age. But to him who is of an opposite disposition, youth and age are equally a burden.
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They think that you bear old age more easily not because of the way you live but because you’re wealthy, for the wealthy, they say, have many consolations.
Education is the best provision for old age.
The ideal age for marriage in men is 35. The ideal age for marriage in women is 18
Education is the best provision for old age.
If it is the devil that tempts the young to enjoy themselves, is it not the same personage that persuades the old to condemn their enjoyment? And is not condemnation perhaps merely a form of excitement appropriate to old age?
When considering marriage one should ask oneself this question; “will I be able to talk with this person into old age?” Everything else is transitory; the most time is spent in conversation.
Quite apart from anything else, the rule of money sees to it that we shall be governed largely by the old — that is, by people utterly unable to grasp what age they are living in or what enemy they are fighting.
Time moved for you not in quotidian beats, but in the slow rhythm the ages keep.
Our epoch has been give many nicknames – the Age of Anxiety, the Atomic Age, the Space Age. It might, with equally good reason, be called the Age of Television Addiction, the Age of Soap Opera, the Age of the Disk Jockey.
