Old Age

That's the privilege of old age: You don't have to remember.

Old age may have its limitations and challenges, but in spite of them, our latter years can be some of the most rewarding and fulfilling of our lives.

The crucial task of old age is balance: keeping just well enough, just brave enough, just gay and interested and starkly honest enough to remain a sentient human being.

What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

Rashness belongs to youth prudence to old age.

No lie ever reaches old age.

Error is acceptable as long as we are young but one must not drag it along into old age.

Save your money. You're going to need twice as much money in your old age as you think.

Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age.

The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.

Old age is the verdict of life.

Time, in general, has always been a central obsession of mine - what it does to people, how it can constitute a plot all on its own. So naturally, I am interested in old age.

A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.

Advice in old age is foolish for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.

How young can you die of old age?

How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

A lot of people are frightened by old age - by being around people who are, basically, on their way out - but I'm fascinated by it. It's an amazing thing to be around someone who has had a life well lived.

There's no such thing as old age. I'm no different now than I was 50 years ago. I'm just having more fun.