“ 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. ”
“ In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived. ”
“ There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow. ”
“ To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am. ”
“ Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young. ”
“ None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm. ”
“ The answer to old age is to keep one's mind busy and to go on with one's life as if it were interminable. I always admired Chekhov for building a new house when he was dying of tuberculosis. ”
“ Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough. ”
“ How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete. ”
“ It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen. ”
“ One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up. ”
“ Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice it whitens only the hair. ”
“ We pay when old for the excesses of youth. ”
“ Age appears to be best in four things old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read. ”
“ You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them. ”
“ Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice. ”
“ Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age. ”
“ While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be. ”
“ No man is ever old enough to know better. ”
“ Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age. ”