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

The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood.

No man is ever old enough to know better.

Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature.

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.

Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.

I don't want to fight aging I want to take good care of myself, but plastic surgery and all that? I'm not interested.

Oh rage! Oh despair! Oh age, my enemy!

If you haven't turned rebel by twenty you've got no heart if you haven't turned establishment by thirty you've got no brains!

No one can avoid aging, but aging productively is something else.

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

To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.

While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.

Old age is a shipwreck.

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

You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.

I want to get old gracefully. I want to have good posture, I want to be healthy and be an example to my children.

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

If you're old, don't try to change yourself, change your environment.