Old Age

Not everything in old age is grim. I haven't walked through an airport for years, and wheelchairs are the way to travel.

The public has lost faith in the ability of Social Security and Medicare to provide for old age. They've lost faith in the banking system and in conventional medical insurance.

I am involved in a lot of nonprofits. And when I reached the ripe old age of 60, I wanted to provide leadership to some I had been involved in.

There is always some chance of recession in any year. But the evidence suggests that expansions don't die of old age.

Most women are indulgent of themselves. This is a mistake. It should be only the reward of old age.

Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.

In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived.

Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.

When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.

The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.

One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.

Old age isn't a battle old age is a massacre.

What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.

We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.

Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

I admire those people who hold on to their elegance in old age but I'd rather have fun.