aging

Before you contradict an old man my fair friend you should endeavour to understand him.

It is time to be old To take in sail.

The arctic loneliness of age.

How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?

Old age is the Outpatient's Dept of purgatory.

If you live long enough the venerability factor creeps in you get accused of things you never did and praised for virtues you never had.

The role of a retired person is no longer to possess one.

Old age takes away from us what we have inherited and gives us what we have earned.

Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

The spiritual eyesight improves as the physical eyesight declines.

All the best sands of my life are somehow getting into the wrong end of the hourglass. If I could only reverse it! Were it in my power to do so would I?

Let us respect gray hairs especially our own.

A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.

Longevity is having a chronic disease and taking care of it.

To me old age is always fifteen years older than I am.

The difference between being an elder statesman And posing successfully as an elder statesman Is practically negligible.

Here's a new day. 0 Pendulum move slowly!

Dignity high station or great riches are in some sort necessary to old men in order to keep the younger at a distance who are otherwise too apt to insult them upon the score of their age.