One trouble with growing older is that it gets progressively tougher to find a famous historical figure who didn't amount to much when he was your age.
A man of fifty looks as old as Santa Claus to a girl of twenty.
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Age
Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form.
Middle age: when you're sitting at home on Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.
The difference between being an elder statesman And posing successfully as an elder statesman Is practically negligible.
An older author is constantly rediscovering himself in the more or less fossilized productions of his earlier years.
There were days when Amory resented that life had changed from an even progress along a road stretching ever in sight, with the scenery merging and blending, into a succession of quick, unrelated scen...
One of the many problems with aging is that you begin to think of yourself as a slob because your birthday suit can never be cleaned or pressed no matter how spotted or wrinkled it gets
My wisdom is as spurned as chaos. What is my nothingness, compared to the amazement that awaits you?
A tip for increased sales or in situations of life or death: Try to always refer to the lady as Miss. or Ms. Using the term: Ma'am could piss her off.
I just got a rather nasty shock. In looking for something or other I came across the fact that one of my cats is about to be nine years old, and that another of them will shortly thereafter be eight;...
When I was very young I was disgracefully intolerant but when I passed the thirty mark I prided myself on having learned the beautiful lesson that all things were good and equally good. That howeve...
He had come to that time in his life (it varies for every man) when a human being gives himself over to his demon or to his genius according to a mysterious law which orders him either to destroy or...
And he (King David) died in a good old age full of days riches and honour.
Before you contradict an old man my fair friend you should endeavour to understand him.
The old repeat themselves and the young have nothing to say. The boredom is mutual.
Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?
The more steps you take towards the end, the fewer steps you have to take towards the end!
Looking back on it now, I'd say one's thirties are a cruel age. At this point, I think of them as a time I whiled away unaware of the tide that can suddenly pull you out, beyond the shallows, into the...
Some women I talk to are so frightened of growing old. I sense their desperation. They say things like I m not going to live to be old I m not going to live to be dependent. The message young women ge...