“If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.”
“The older you get the stronger the wind gets -- and it's always in your face.”
“I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.”
“Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form.”
“I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.”
“I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.”
“Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.”
“No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.”
“The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.”
“How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.”
“Getting older is like riding a bicycle, if you don't keep peddling, you'll fall.”
“I married an archaeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.”
“A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.”
“I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.”
“Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.”
“How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.”
“My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.”
“Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.”
“Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.”
“Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.”
“The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.”
“Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.”
“Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.”
“Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.”
“The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.”
“A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring. That disgusts me.”
“I have found it to be true that the older I've become the better my life has become.”
“It is a sobering thought, that when Mozart was my age he had been dead for two years.”
“One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going.”
“I refuse to admit that I am more than 52, even if that makes my children illegitimate.”