New poems no longer come to me with their prodigies of metaphor and assonance. Prose endures. I feel the circles grow smaller, and old age is a ceremony of losses, which is, on the whole, preferable to dying at forty-seven or fifty-two.
I was already devouring literature and I was the ripe old age of 15 when I decided to be an actor. I just thought plays were the most fantastic way of expressing life. I thought I'd discovered Shakespeare - 'hey, there's a new guy in town, don't know if anyone's read him.' I was just excited about the whole thing, from day one.
In youth, the days are short and the years are long. In old age, the years are short and days long.
Old age may have its limitations and challenges, but in spite of them, our latter years can be some of the most rewarding and fulfilling of our lives.
Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a minimum.
In America, people rarely stay in the town where they grew up, rarely stay in close proximity to their parents throughout their lives. You rarely find parents in their old age being taken care of by their children.
I think repeating yourself is a sign of old age, telling the same joke again and again. Especially if they're jokes that don't make people laugh.
Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
I want a comfortable old age and to be looked after - I have arthritis - and money is a factor.
I tend not to think about living to some grand old age. Then again, I don't think about dying, either.
One of the things you learn in football is that you're only as good as your last outing. I don't like to reflect on what we've done in the past. I'm not a very good storyteller, for one thing. I'd disappoint you. When it's time, I'll talk about the good old days. But it's a sign of old age, reveling in the past.
A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.
Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age.
The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.
The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.
The exhaustion of old age is something people who are younger don't fully appreciate.
A lot of people are frightened by old age - by being around people who are, basically, on their way out - but I'm fascinated by it. It's an amazing thing to be around someone who has had a life well lived.
Nevertheless, whether in occurrences lasting days, hours or mere minutes at a time, I have experienced happiness often, and have had brief encounters with it in my later years, even in old age.
Old age has got to start creeping up on me one day soon, and frankly I'm very scared. I don't want to be old. I've always felt so young. And I want to stay that way.
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.
The popular mythology of creative genius depends on beloved stereotypes of the artist in youth and old age: the misunderstood upstart who forces us to see the world afresh; and the revered sage who shows us depths of insight attainable only through a lifetime of hard-won experience.
It is not well to make great changes in old age.
After 3 years, I left the army at the ripe old age of 20, but I'd like to think some of the skills are still with me. I'm great at physical movement; I can still remember Morse code, and perhaps most importantly, I can fold my socks up into little balls with smiley faces.
Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.
I admire those people who hold on to their elegance in old age but I'd rather have fun.
Maybe I'll be a feminist in my old age.
How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
All diseases run into one, old age.
Old age is, so to speak, the sanctuary of ills: they all take refuge in it.
Just call me a family man and an actor who digs his whole scene, side interests and all. Just say I feel mighty good at the ripe old age of 27.
Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.
The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you're learning you're not old.
Old age is the verdict of life.
I embrace old age. Look, I'm never going to dunk on LeBron James, and I've learned to accept that. I got a pretty good life, and I'm very fortunate, and I have my blessings.
Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.