When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.
There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.
Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.
Old minds are like old horses you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.
Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.
There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone but, years after, we know it was much later.
As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost.
The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.
One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.
After you're older, two things are possibly more important than any others: health and money.
You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.
I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.
Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair.
My notion of a wife at 40 is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank note, for two 20s.
As you age naturally, your family shows more and more on your face. If you deny that, you deny your heritage.
Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.
In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.
The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.
I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.
To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.
Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.
I want to get old gracefully. I want to have good posture, I want to be healthy and be an example to my children.
You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.
While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.
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.
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!
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.
Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.