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 awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature.
The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood.
The answer to old age is to keep one's mind busy and to go on with one's life as if it were interminable. I always admired Chekhov for building a new house when he was dying of tuberculosis.
We've put more effort into helping folks reach old age than into helping them enjoy it.
The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.
To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age.
In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived.
Those who love deeply never grow old they may die of old age, but they die young.
The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.
The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more.
When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
The whole business of marshaling one's energies becomes more and more important as one grows older.
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.
Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice it whitens only the hair.
I find that a man is as old as his work. If his work keeps him from moving forward, he will look forward with the work.
Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.
The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.
Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, 'At my age, I don't even buy green bananas.'
When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.
Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.
As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.
Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.
Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.
At twenty years of age the will reigns at thirty, the wit and at forty, the judgment.
Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.
We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination.