It's like being at the kids' table at Thanksgiving - you can put your elbows on it, you don't have to talk politics... no matter how old I get, there's always a part of me that's sitting there.

Animals of all classes, old and young, shrink with instinctive fear from any strange object approaching them.

There is nothing so aggravating as a fresh boy who is too old to ignore and too young to kick.

Massachusetts women as a rule adhere too strongly to old-time conventions.

A young man is a theory, an old man is a fact.

A woman is as old as she looks before breakfast.

I was born in Somerville, but I don't remember very much about it because we moved from there to Arlington when I was five years old, and it was in Arlington that I spent most of my childhood.

My mother's background was Scottish. She came from an old family, some of whom lived in upper New York State and some of whom had come over from Scotland.

I would not be gotten into a schoolhouse until I was eight years old. Nor did I accomplish much after I started. I doubt if I had gone to school six months in all when my father died. I was fourteen at the time.

Buckwheat may be planted later than any similar crop, and often does well on old meadows or waste land that can be broken after the more exacting crops are planted.

The mere dates of my existence do not interest me, except in one connection. When the Great War started I was too old to be acceptable as a volunteer; when conscription followed I was too old to be conscripted.

I shall not die young, for I am already near seventy: I may die old.

Growing old is not growing up.

I don't feel old. I don't feel anything till noon. That's when it's time for my nap.

You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.