Not even old age knows how to love death.
Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.
Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.
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.
Those men who, in war, seek to preserve their lives at any rate commonly die with shame and ignominy, while those who look upon death as common to all, and unavoidable, and are only solicitous to die with honour, oftener arrive at old age and, while they live, live happier.
It's one of the terrors of old age that your body is not your friend. Or to be out on the street and be frightened of someone because you're not in good shape and can't do anything about it.
Scripture is filled with examples of men and women whom God used late in life, often with great impact - men and women who refused to use old age as an excuse to ignore what God wanted them to do.
Be eccentric now. Don't wait for old age to wear purple.
Old age and the passage of time teach all things.
To me - old age is always ten years older than I am.
Old age is no place for sissies.
Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.
Old age is when the liver spots show through your gloves.
The New Age? It's just the old age stuck in a microwave oven for fifteen seconds.
Many believe - and I believe - that I have been designated for this work by God. In spite of my old age, I do not want to give it up; I work out of love for God and I put all my hope in Him.
I softened in my old age.
Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Most 'Monty Python' fans are, of course, baby boomers, who have long been a nostalgic lot and are growing more so as they totter toward old age.
Old age is a shipwreck.
Pretend to be dumb, that's the only way to reach old age.
Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.
Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.
To be old is to be part of a huge and ordinary multitude... the reason why old age was venerated in the past was because it was extraordinary.
Friends die, friends become demented, friends quarrel, friends drift with old age into silence.
In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.
Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.
Lack of education, old age, bad health or discrimination - these are causes of poverty, and the way to attack it is to go to the root.
The crucial task of old age is balance: keeping just well enough, just brave enough, just gay and interested and starkly honest enough to remain a sentient human being.
Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.
The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.
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.
When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
We've put more effort into helping folks reach old age than into helping them enjoy it.
But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave.