Here, with whitened hair, desires failing,
strength ebbing out of him, with the sun gone
down and with only the serenity and the calm
warning of the evening star left to him, he
drank to Life, to all it had been, to what it
was, to what it would be. Hurrah!
-- Sean O'Casey
1884-1964, Irish
Dramatist
The old -- like children -- talk to themselves,
for they have reached that hopeless wisdom of
experience which knows that though one were to
cry it in the streets to multitudes, or whisper
it in the kiss to one's beloved, the only ears
that can ever hear one's secrets are one's own!
-- Eugene O'Neill
1888-1953,
American Dramatist
When you're 50 you start thinking about things
you haven't thought about before. I used to
think getting old was about vanity -- but
actually it's about losing people you love.
Getting wrinkles is trivial.
-- Joyce Carol
Oates
1938-, American
Author
Study until twenty five, investigate until
forty, profession until sixty, at which age I
would have him retired on a double allowance.
-- Sir William
Osler
1849-1919,
Canadian Physician
