“Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young.”

“The banana skins of life are ready and waiting for the over confident, the elderly and the drunk.”

“Though the favourites of the gods die young, they also live eternally in the company of gods." - Friedrich Nietzsche”

“He looked as though I'd just run over his pet puppy (though no actual puppies were harmed in the formation of that metaphor).”

“The life we've fashioned in this time is a singular one. One minute you're a child and you have no control over your life, the next you're an adult with responsibilities and no control over your life, and then you're an elder with wisdom, a wealth of experience...and no control over yourself or your life.”

“If the wild filly, "Progress," thou wouldst ride,Have young companions ever at thy side;But wouldst thou stride the stanch old mare, "Success,"Go with thine elders, though they please thee less.”