Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward.
The old man, of whom we know how he has become what he is, is more of an individual than the young man; for it is only in the course of an eventful life that men are differentiated into full individuality.
A man growing old becomes a child again.
There comes a time in every man's life when he must make way for an older man.
I used to be a good party boy. I'm old. I'm an old man. You pay the consequences. I'm just fine with a couple of drinks, no more than that.
I think a man ought to get drunk at least twice a year just on principle, so he won't let himself get snotty about it.
There are more old drunkards than old physicians.
No man is so old as to believe he cannot live one more year.
As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.
Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older.
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