At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
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?
He that has seen both sides of fifty has lived to little purpose if he has no other views of the world than he had when he was much younger.
The young feel tired at the end of an action The old at the beginning.
Dignity high station or great riches are in some sort necessary to old men in order to keep the younger at a distance who are otherwise too apt to insult them upon the score of their age.
My mother and I looked at each other then, full in the face, more frankly than we'd done since I was small. I realized with a jolt that I was taller than she was by at least half a foot. When on earth...
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.
Middle age is when you have a choice of two temptations and choose the one that will get you home earlier.
I really believe that more harm is done by old men who cling to their influence than by young men who anticipate it.
Old foxes want no tutors.
I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left.
I refuse to admit that I am more than 52 even if that makes my sons illegitimate.
I am tarred and feathered with Time.
Over the last few years, my comfort level with how I look has improved. My age has helped. You get used to yourself and accept yourself.
The older I grow, the more I listen to people who don't talk much.
now that one was mature then, said Peter, one could watch, one could understand, and one did not lose the power of feeling, he said. No, that is true, said Sally. She felt more deeply, more passionate...
The Babies we were are buried, and their shadows are plodding on.
Aging is something! It always makes you remember yesterday!
The older I get the less I care what other people think of me. Therefore the older I get the more I enjoy life.