About the time we get old enough to be as wicked as we want to be, we don't want to be so very wicked after all.

Nobody loves life like him that's growing old.

You can have your face lifted but there comes a time when you are still going to be offered the Nurse, not Juliet.

...an old man is twice a child.

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of not going.

Now the swinging bridge Is quieted with creepers-Like our tendrilled life.

An inherent kindness exists in the process of aging ... we are allowed to move along gradually.

Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.

The mountain is silent. The water without form. A clear breeze has no price, The bright moon no lover. Here, after their fashion, I will grow old in peace.

To be grown up is to sit at the table with people who have died, who neither listen nor speak ...

Old people shouldn't eat health foods. They need all the preservatives they can get.

The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.

Old age ain't for sissies.

Don't worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older, it will avoid you.

For a moment man is a boy, for a moment a lovesick youth, for a moment bereft of wealth, for a moment in the height of prosperity; then at life's end with limbs worn out by old age and wrinkles adorning his face, like an actor he retires behind the curtain of death.

They say a man is as old as the women he feels.

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.

My Mother always used to say: The older you get, the better you get - unless you're a banana.