Old foxes want no tutors.
The young feel tired at the end of an action The old at the beginning.
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Age
I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left.
You always thought older people were wiser. It's not that. It's just that our relatives are dead and we're able to speak freely.
Do not resent growing old, many are denied the privilege.
I need to stop saying LMAO because that is precisely what's happening; I wish I could rewind time by two decades, immortalize my derriere in wax, and then kiss it goodbye.
One of the many troubles of growing older is that it gets progressively harder to find a famous historical figure who hadn't yet amounted to anything by the time he was your age.
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 truth is, Socrates, that these regrets, and also the complaints about relations, are to be attributed to the same cause, which is not old age, but men's characters and tempers; for he who is of a...
I must be getting absent-minded. Whenever I complain that things aren't what they used to be I always forget to include myself.
First you forget names then you forget faces then you forget to pull your zipper up then you forget to pull your zipper down.
It happens to everyone and it happens fast.
How much longer would we go on being old young people? They wavedgoodbye to me. I was moved by Annette. She and I wereexactly the same age, and she'd become one of those slightlyfaded Danish beauties...
The mental pictures I have of my parents and grandparents and my childhood are beginning to break up into small fragments and get blown away from me into empty space, and the same wind is sucking me t...
In childhood we inhabit a world of wonderful contrasts that later we often come to see as bizarre and do our best to rearrange, with everything in its 'proper' place. Unusual juxtapositions we label s...
At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
The arctic loneliness of age.
Wrinkles - the service stripes of life.
She told me that the brain is built to forget things as we continue to live, that memories are meant to fade and disintegrate, that skin, so protective in the beginning because it has to be to protect...
You are young, said my father. You won't get any younger even if you clean your teeth twice a day.You'll get older, said my mother, that's what happens.Then what happens?You won't be able to find the...