He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled.
Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice it whitens only the hair.
The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.
The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.
To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.
Old age is no place for sissies.
Time, in general, has always been a central obsession of mine - what it does to people, how it can constitute a plot all on its own. So naturally, I am interested in old age.
One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up.
The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you're learning you're not old.
There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age.
At the time I now write of, Father Mapple was in the hardy winter of a healthy old age; that sort of old age which seems merging into a second flowering youth, for among all the fissures of his wrinkl...
Gray hair is the glory of a long life.
If you don't do anything stupid when you're young, you won't remember something funny when you're old.
Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.
Aging is not our fault, but we certainly are guilty of feeling it.
People think I am younger then I really am,because I act so immature.
Persistent smile brings out hollow dimples, and persistent frowns brings out hollow wrinkles.
Advice in old age is foolish for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.
Old age is the verdict of life.
A lot of people are frightened by old age - by being around people who are, basically, on their way out - but I'm fascinated by it. It's an amazing thing to be around someone who has had a life well l...
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