“Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.”
“I don't generally feel anything until noon, then it's time for my nap.”
“We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.”
“In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.”
“The trouble with our age is that it is all signpost and no destination.”
“Whatever poet, orator, or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.”
“To be happy, we must be true to nature, and carry our age along with us.”
“It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.”
“A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.”
“She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.”
“You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.”
“The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.”
“As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.”
“Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don't mind, age don't matter.”
“If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.”
“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.”