Old age and poverty are wounds that can't be healed.
Old age cures us of our youth.
Old age does not announce itself.
Dying while young is a boon in old age.
Which was, said Old Mock, one of the chief attractions of eschatological religions. When one's world was impermanent, difficult endeavors, like procuring justice or balancing the ecology, need never be attempted. One need only make contributions to t...
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.
I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I'm not old yet!
Nostalgia is a file that removes the rough edges from the good old days.
In the good old days when I was a senator, I was my own man.
Young men, hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young.
Other people, including me, have written books with main characters who were old and rich. Or old and brilliant. Old sages, old wizards, old rich people.
I spend a lot of time thinking about this business of letting go - letting go of the children God gives to us for such a brief time before they go off on their own; letting go of old homes, old friends, old places and old dreams.
Pretty wife, old wine -- many friends.
Old bachelors and old maids are either too good or too bad.
Old loves are dropped when new ones come
Punching a woman is like punching a one-year old black baby in the face
One can't feel old in a day or overnight!
No one on this Earth knows how old I am.
It's a new town. The old elegance is gone. It used to be one big family, this industry.
Life is one long decay, no? There's a lot of beauty in it. Like the patina in an old city.
One should never tie his faith to how old the earth is.
