Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
Old age is a shipwreck.
Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.
Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.
Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.
Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
Old age is like flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.
Old age is not a disease — it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.
Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.
Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.
Old age is the verdict of life.
Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.
Old age may seem a long way off. But on the day it doesn't, it will be too late to do anything about it.
Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.
Old age though despised, is coveted by all.
Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.
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