DisciplineI am old and I have hadmore than my share of good and bad.I've had love and sorrow, seen sudden deathand been left alone and of love bereft.I thought I would never love againand I thought my...
A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.
The delights of reading impart the vivacity of youth even to old age.
Our lives can't be measured by our final years, of this I am sure.
Left alone, Miss Verney felt so old, lonely and helpless that she began to cry. No builder would tackle that shed, not for any price she could afford. But crying relieved her and she soon felt quite c...
I was quite a looker in my time, she said. Was she reading his mind, or only being smart, to know she must be hideous?Oh, had they invented time as long ago as that?
I blushed. You haven't seen a bald man in his sixties blush? Oh, it happens, just as it does to a hairy, spotty fifteen-year-old. And because it's rarer, it sends the blusher tumbling back to that tim...
He knew what the wind was doing to them, where it was taking them, to all the secret places that were never so secret again in life.
I admire those people who hold on to their elegance in old age but I'd rather have fun.
Old age is catching up with me, or am I catching up with it?
…that's what old people are here for, — else their experience is of little use.
After having imposed itself on us like the egomaniac it is, clamouring about its own needs, foisting upon us its own sordid and perilous desires, the body's final trick is simply to absent itself. Jus...
The themes that make one laugh always stem from poverty, hunger, misery, old age, sickness, and death. These are the themes that make Italians laugh, anyway.
The older you get, the easier it is for you to distinguish between your friends and people you are not seeing for the first time.
We are never old with the strength of the spirit, although the body may fail.
The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude.
He had perhaps seen fifty springs and was therefore already very old, but his tireless body moved with an agility I myself often lacked.
Godfrey's wife Charmian sat with her eyes closed, attempting to put her thoughts into alphabetical order which Godfrey had told her was better than no order at all, since she now had grasp of neither...
I don't know what's happened to me. I've got a bit more sophisticated in my old age. I like a bit of jasmine tea. I love it.
I don't mind being older. I'm proud of my age. I've achieved a lot. It's the same thing with Mick and the Stones. They should be revered and respected. Isn't it strange that now we're living longer we...