There are people whose watch stops at a certain hour and who remain permanently at that age. – Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
I am getting to an age when I can only enjoy the last sport left. It is called hunting for your spectacles. – Edward Grey
The lost leaves measure our years; they are gone as the days are gone. – Richard Jefferies, The Life of the Fields, 1908
Regular naps prevent old age, especially if you take them while driving. – Author Unknown
How far away the stars seem, and how far is our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart. – William Butler Yeats
Growing old is a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form. – Andre Maurois
Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret. – Benjamin Disraeli, Coningsby
The trick is growing up without growing old. – Casey Stengel
It takes about ten years to get used to how old you are. – Quoted by Raymond A. Michel in The Leaf
It takes a long time to become young. – Pablo Picasso
The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood. – Logan Pearsall Smith
Our bodies are the burial grounds of dead time. – T.A.Sachs, in answer to William Habington “Time! where didst thou those years in
I am old enough to see how little I have done in so much time, and how much I have to do in so little. – Sheila Kaye-Smith
When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age. – Victor Hugo
True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country. – Kurt Vonnegut
To the loved ones with snowy crowns, I bequeath the happiness of old age, the love and gratitude of their children until they fall asleep. – Author unknown, commonly misattributed to Williston Fish
Never lose sight of the fact that old age needs so little but needs that little so much. – Margaret Willour
The idea is to die young as late as possible. – Ashley Montagu
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young. – Henry Ford
How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete. – C. S. Lewis
