“All the best sands of my life are somehow getting into the wrong end of the hourglass.”

About Thomas Bailey Aldrich

1836 – 1907

American poet and editor, author of "Ponkapog Papers".

“To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent—that is to triumph over old age.”

“We weep when we are born, not when we die!”

“Those are the ghosts of the robins and blue-birds that sang upon the bough when it was in blossom last Spring.”

“The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.”

“Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.”

“Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form.”

“The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool.”

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“Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.”

“Time waxing old can many a lesson teach.”