“The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.”
“One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.”
“At last now you can be what the old cannot recall and the young long for in dreams, yet still include them all.”
“Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.”
“We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.”
“I think in twenty years I'll be looked at like Bob Hope. Doing those president jokes and golf shit. It scares me.”
“You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology.”
“The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.”
“One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past.”
“The older we grow the greater becomes our wonder at how much ignorance one can contain without bursting one's clothes.”
“There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.”
“To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.”
“No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.”
“A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.”
“For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying.”
“Every man is the creature of the age in which he lives; very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.”
“A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.”
“Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.”
“I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put over my kitchen table.”
“Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.”
“Who soweth good seed shall surely reap; The year grows rich as it groweth old, And life's latest sands are its sands of gold!”
“I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?”
“He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise.”
“That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.”
“You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.”
“Age. That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit.”
“These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.”
“I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.”
“The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.”
“There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having lived long in the world.”