“The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain.”
“When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.”
“The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.”
“Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so.”
“One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.”
“At last now you can be what the old cannot recall and the young long for in dreams, yet still include them all.”
“Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.”
“We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.”
“I think in twenty years I'll be looked at like Bob Hope. Doing those president jokes and golf shit. It scares me.”
“In the name of Hippocrates, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.”
“You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology.”
“The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.”
“If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should not grow old.”
“Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk.”
“Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.”
“One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past.”
“The older we grow the greater becomes our wonder at how much ignorance one can contain without bursting one's clothes.”
“Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.”
“Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.”
“There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.”
“To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.”
“No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.”
“A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.”
“For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying.”
“Every man is the creature of the age in which he lives; very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.”
“A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.”
“Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.”
“I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put over my kitchen table.”
“Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.”
“Who soweth good seed shall surely reap; The year grows rich as it groweth old, And life's latest sands are its sands of gold!”