Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
My mother enjoyed old age, and because of her I've begun to enjoy parts of it too. So far I've had it good and am crumbling nicely.
The answer to old age is to keep one's mind busy and to go on with one's life as if it were interminable. I always admired Chekhov for building a new house when he was dying of tuberculosis.
Woodcuts have a really timeless sort of feel, and they feel like a book that's a couple hundred years old.
Take Jonathan Franzen's work: it's just old wine in new bottles. They say he's the Tolstoy of the digital age, but there can only be a Tolstoy of the Tolstoyan age.
Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.
Old age may have its limitations and challenges, but in spite of them, our latter years can be some of the most rewarding and fulfilling of our lives.
Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
Old friends are best.
Old age is a shipwreck.
I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.