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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Men in their late 50s often make very bad decisions.
Old men are cantankerous: they like to get their own way.
Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.
Young men make great mistakes in life; for one thing, they idealize love too much.
Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation.
There comes a time in every man's life when he must make way for an older man.
I suppose when they reach a certain age some men are afraid to grow up. It seems the older the men get, the younger their new wives get.
Men don't have as many difficulties and are more supported to combine the different aspects of their life.
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.