It's paradoxical that the idea of living a long life appeals to everyone, but the idea of getting old doesn't appeal to anyone.
Middle age is youth without its levity And age without decay.
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Age
If you live long enough the venerability factor creeps in you get accused of things you never did and praised for virtues you never had.
Those whose lives have been an exercise in the pitting of their wits, or the selling of their talents, time and strength, to those who pay the piper, can even in their old age, even with their wits pa...
I'm pretty sure that eating chocolate keeps wrinkles away because I have never seen a 10 year old with a Hershey bar and crows feet.
OctoberO love, turn from the changing sea and gaze,Down these grey slopes, upon the year grown old,A-dying 'mid the autumn-scented hazeThat hangeth o'er the hollow in the wold,Where the wind-bitten an...
Wisdom comes with winters
Aging has a wonderful beauty and we should have respect for that.
If you think that I am going to bother myself again before I die about social improvement or read any of those stinking upward and onwarders - you err - I mean to have some good out of being old.
Is not all philosophy but preparation for a serene dying?
Age has a good mind and sorry shanks.
The role of a retired person is no longer to possess one.
The past is gone. It went by like dusk to dawn.
To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
I believe that love and forgiveness engages an incomprehensible healing force and sometimes true healing occurs, but always an emotional and spiritual healing happens.
The old who refuse to die merely on principle live on forever, to hate life and complain of all the things they could have been spared had they the good sense to die young.
Age is inevitable. Aging isn't.
Growing old - it's not nice but it's interesting.
The individual succumbs but he does not die if he has left something to mankind.
When you are forty half of you belongs to the past. . . And when you are seventy nearly all of you.