Old age is the new childhood.
Education is the best provision for old age.
Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age.
[O]ver the years I travelled to another universe. However alert we are, however much we think we know what will happen, antiquity remains an unknown, unanticipated galaxy. It is alien, and old people...
Prayer of an Anonymous Abbess:Lord, thou knowest better than myself that I am growing older and will soon be old. Keep me from becoming too talkative, and especially from the unfortunate habit of thin...
Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent.
Save your money. You're going to need twice as much money in your old age as you think.
Death would not surprise us as often as it does, if we let go of the misbelief that newborns are less mortal than the elderly.
With regard to things such as independence, mental capabilities, and sexuality, a very old man is nothing but a gigantic infant with white hair and wrinkles.
