Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man. – James Thurber
No one can avoid aging, but aging productively is something else. – Katharine Graham
Oh rage! Oh despair! Oh age, my enemy! – Pierre Corneille
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. – Pearl S. Buck
Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay. – Doris Day
No man is ever old enough to know better. – Holbrook Jackson
In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us. – Beverly Sills
We pay when old for the excesses of youth. – J. B. Priestley
The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little. – Max Lerner
In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived. – Knut Hamsun
Those who love deeply never grow old they may die of old age, but they die young. – Dorothy Canfield Fisher
I get all fired up about aging in America. – Willard Scott
There is an anti-aging possibility, but it has to come from within. – Susan Anton
The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more. – Colleen McCullough
When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality. – Muriel Spark
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. – Bob Wells
Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice it whitens only the hair. – Ira Gershwin
As men get older, the toys get more expensive. – Marvin Davis
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. – William Ernest Hocking
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen. – Albert Einstein
