“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.”
“I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?”
“He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise.”
“Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.”
“That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.”
“You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.”
“Age. That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit.”
“The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.”
“These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.”
“I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.”
“The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.”
“There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having lived long in the world.”
“Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.”
“I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.”
“Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters.”
“I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.”
“With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.”
“In middle life, the human back is spoiling for a technical knockout and will use the flimsiest excuse, even a sneeze, to fall apart.”
“Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more in the world to see.”
“The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies far away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and woman, old age is upon us.”
“Study until twenty five, investigate until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.”
“A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, ''At my age, I don't even buy green bananas.”
“Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, ''Why not?'' and the other, ''Why bother?''”
“When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am.”
“An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest which are nearest to heaven.”
“Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime.”
“Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.”
“As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new -- and near the end. The milestones into headstones change, Neath every one a friend.”
“Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold and have escaped, not from one master, but from many.”
“Old age is not a disease -- it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.”