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.
There's no such thing as old age. I'm no different now than I was 50 years ago. I'm just having more fun.
One Must Always Remember That Birth, Old Age, Disease And Death Comes At Any Moment In Regardless Of Whom We Are Or What We Have In Forms Of Material Possession.
Do something very praiseworthy in your youth or in your middle age so that you can spend all your time talking about it in your old age!
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.
One endured with humble dignity the consequences of youthful folly.
It wasn't right that you could only understand your parents' pain once you'd experienced the things they had, and by then they were gone.
How terrible, Jack thought, to be old and know that your life has been wasted.
The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you're learning you're not old.
Perhaps this was one of the tragedies life plots for us: it is our destiny to become in old age what in youth we would have most despised.
Old Age- You can tell when you're getting old when you stop taking drugs for fun and start taking them to keep you alive.-character Jackson Rockenberger (Broken)
Then his head tipped down on his chest and he fell into the instant sleep of the ancient and the very young.
Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.
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.
Life teaches us two important things - we are careless when we are young and by the time we get old, it is too late to be careful!!
Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.
When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.
She is here. And she comes to you, and she does not speak, and the others do not notice her, and she takes your hand, and you ready yourself to die, eyes open, aware this is all an illusion, a last ar...
Old age saves us from the realization of a great many fears.
That's the privilege of old age: You don't have to remember.