Old Age

In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.

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

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.

When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.

Education is the best provision for old age.

The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you're learning you're not old.

Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.

There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

In youth, the days are short and the years are long. In old age, the years are short and days long.

All diseases run into one, old age.

Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.

Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Be eccentric now. Don't wait for old age to wear purple.

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age.