#old

I go back to South Africa at least once a year, sometimes twice, and usually for a month. And probably, I'm guessing, I'll spend more time back there as I get older. ↗

— Dave Matthews

#back #get #go #guessing #i

It's no good trying to keep up old friendships. It's painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#both sides #face #fact #friendships #good

Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#different #less #old #old age #pleasures

What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#bear #burden #faculties #failing #hard

Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#because #long #old #old age #ready

As soon as I became old enough to make my dreams my reality, I became a firm believer that the subconscious and the world outside of our flesh and blood is essentially the truth. ↗

— Melissa Auf der Maur

#believer #blood #dreams #enough #essentially

Tell me what you read and I'll tell you who you are is true enough, but I'd know you better if you told me what you reread. ↗

— Francois Mauriac

#enough #i #know #me #read

Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold. ↗

— Andre Maurois

#alone #cold #man #trembles #without

Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form. ↗

— Andre Maurois

#bad #bad habit #busy #busy person #form

The fun thing about getting older is finding younger people to mentor. ↗