Give me chastity and continence, but not yet. – Saint Aurelius Augustine
Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs. – Charles Dickens
We grow gray in our spirit long before we grow gray in our hair. – Charles Lamb
Life is one long process of getting tired. – Samuel Butler, Notebooks
Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that happen to a man. – Leon Trotsky (Lev Davidovich Bronstein), Diary in Exile, 1935
What this country needs is radicals who will stay that way regardless of the creeping years. – John Fischer
Everything slows down with age, except the time it takes cake and ice cream to reach your hips. – John M. Wagner (“Maxine”)
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time. – Oliver W. Holmes, Sr.
Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered. – Graham Greene
As a graduate of the Zsa Zsa Gabor School of Creative mathematics, I honestly do not know how old I am. – Erma Bombeck
The other day a man asked me what I thought was the best time of life. “Why,” I answered without a thought, “now.” – David Grayson
Never use the passing years as an excuse for old age. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
We try to achieve beauty by covering up all traces of age and end up looking like we tried to achieve youth by covering up all traces of beauty. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
A man is not old as long as he is seeking something. – Jean Rostand
One evil in old age is, that as your time is come, you think every little illness is the beginning of the end. When a man expects to be arrested, every knock at the door is an alarm. – Sydney Smith, letter to Robert Wilmot-Horton, 1836 February 8th
Youth disserves; middle age conserves; old age preserves. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)
We turn not older with years, but newer every day. – Emily Dickinson
Middle age is when a narrow waist and a broad mind begin to change places. – Author Unknown
Middle age is youth without its levity, and age without decay. – Daniel Defoe
Where did the time go? Yesterday, I was a girl, and today, I suddenly find myself in the autumn of my years with the cold winds of winter breathing down my neck. – Peggy Toney Horton
