Ogden Nash Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you do hold well. The great use of life is to spend it for something that outlasts is. William James Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can t retire his experience. He must use it.
Experience achieves more with less energy and time.
Bernard Baruch, on his 85th birthday Old age isn t bad when you consider the alternative. The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down. Who knows whether in retirement I shall be tempted to the last infirmity of mundane minds, which is to write a book. Most people say that as you get old, you have to give up things.