Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

Age is not better, hardly so well, qualified for an instructor as youth, for it has not profited so much as it has lost.

Old age is no place for sissies.

I remember my youth and the feeling that I could last forever, outlast the sea, the earth and all men.

Vigor is found in the man who has not yet grown old, and discretion in the man who is not too young.

We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing.

Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength faileth.

He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition, youth and age are equally a burden.

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

The wiser mind mourns less for what age takes away than what it leaves behind.

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

Every high civilization decays by forgetting obvious things.

People all over the nation are starved for honesty and common sense.

Common sense is the very antipodes of science.

Let thy speech be short, comprehending much in few words