The older I grow, the more I listen to people who don't talk much.
I could see in her a piece of the bright hope I once had in myself and it made me sour and angry. It made me feel sorry for her too. I wanted to take both her hands in mine, look her in the eye, and l...
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Age
My relationship with aging is cozy. I'm not trying to play 29 and holding on with white knuckles, you know?
Middle age is when you have a choice of two temptations and choose the one that will get you home earlier.
On the day of his death in his eightieth year Elliot 'the Apostle of the Indians ' was found teaching an Indian child at his bedside. 'Why not to rest from your labours now?' asked a friend. 'Becau...
The spiritual eyesight improves as the physical eyesight declines.
I really believe that more harm is done by old men who cling to their influence than by young men who anticipate it.
And he (King David) died in a good old age full of days riches and honour.
Old birds are hard to pluck.
The old repeat themselves and the young have nothing to say. The boredom is mutual.
Old age is the Outpatient's Dept of purgatory.
Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?
An old man loved is Winter with flowers.
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...
At twenty-four she imagined with dread that she was growing old.
A man of fifty is responsible for his face.
I didn't want to let women down. One of the stereotypes I see breaking is the idea of aging and older women not being beautiful.
My opportunities were still there nay they multiplied tenfold but the strength and youth to cope with them began to fail and to need eking out with the shifty cunning of experience.
By the time a man gets well into his seventies his continued existence is a mere miracle.
A man of fifty looks as old as Santa Claus to a girl of twenty.