Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.
For the last four years of her life, Mother was in a nursing home called Chateins in St. Louis ... [S]ix months before she died I sent a Mother's Day card. There was a horrible, mushy poem in it. I re...
No lie ever reaches old age.
The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.
Old age had distilled her down to her essence.
Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.
Seven Ages: first puking and mewlingThen very pissed-off with your schoolingThen fucks, and then fightsNext judging chaps' rightsThen sitting in slippers: then drooling.
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
When we are young we squander time as though it were unlimited; When we grow older, then like beggars we wish for crumbs of remembrance...
Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.
Old age and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance.
Old age and the passage of time teach all things.
There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age, I missed it coming and going.
Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.
Error is acceptable as long as we are young but one must not drag it along into old age.
We can never skip growing old. As we grow older, we understand old things and things of old times better!
How young can you die of old age?
Was it the forgetfulness of old age or personal incapacity that made the man able to say please but not thank you?
Not even old age knows how to love death.
Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.