Old men are cantankerous: they like to get their own way.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
There comes a time in every man's life when he must make way for an older man.
Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.
Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile.
Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.
Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.
Some men tend to cling to old intellectual excitements, just as some belles, when they are old ladies, still cling to the fashions and coiffures of their exciting youth.
Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.
Young men preen. Old men scheme.
Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.
Old age is the supreme evil, for it deprives man of all pleasures while allowing his appetites to remain, and it brings with it every possible sorrow. Yet men fear death and desire old age.
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