OLD AGE

老年
Don't resent growing old; many do not have the opportunity of doing so.

別埋怨年紀變老；許多人連這樣的機會都沒有。
Life's evening will take its character from the day that has preceded it.

生命晚霞的色彩來自度過的一天。
An aged Christian with the snow of time on his head may remind us that those points of earth are whitest that are nearest heaven.

E. H. Chapin

年邁基督徒頭上歲月的雪白或能提醒我們，那些世上最潔白的歲月是最接近天上的歲月。
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age.

Victor Hugo

四十歲是年輕人中的老人；五十歲是老人中的年輕人。
The evening of a well spent life brings its lamps with it.

Joseph Joubert

毫無虛度的生命在黃昏的時候為自己帶來燈光。
The last ten years of life are the best, because we are freest from illusions and fullest of experience.

Benjamin Jowett

生命最後十年彌足珍貴，因為屆時我們能夠免於虛幻的迷惑，那也是經驗最豐富的時候。
No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

沒有一位智者希冀年輕。
Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.

Abigail Van Buren, 1978

智慧不會自動隨著年齡增長 - 其實除了皺紋，沒有一件東西隨年齡增加。沒錯，葡萄酒會隨著歲月變得香醇，不過那還得看作酒的葡萄是否成熟。
Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.

Christopher Morley (1890 - 1957)

珍惜年輕的年輕的歡樂時光；那將會成為你年老的坐墊。
To resist the frigidity of old age one must combine the body, the mind and the heart - and to keep them in parallel vigor one must exercise, study and love.

Karl von Bonstetten

若要拒絕年老的食古不化，就必須注意身心靈的健康 - 若要保持三者的活力，一個人需要運動、研讀與愛。
Education is the best provision for old age.

Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers

教育是邁入老年的最佳預備。
A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immorality.

Pindar

優雅、榮耀的老年是不朽的童年。