Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years.
Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.
Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.
He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled.
Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.
But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave.
One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier years.
Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
While eliminating smallpox and curtailing cholera added decades of life to vast populations, cures for the chronic diseases of old age cannot have the same effect on life expectancy. A cure for cancer would be miraculous and welcome, but it would lead to only a three-year increase in life expectancy at birth.
No sociologist should think himself too good, even in his old age, to make tens of thousands of quite trivial computations in his head and perhaps for months at a time.
I have the problems of, I must confess, old age.
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.
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.
Where nothing in a person's earlier years lends itself to an old age devoted to continuing intellectual and physical pursuits, a late-life interest in Tolstoy or even crossword puzzles is unlikely to appear, no matter the urging by well-intentioned social workers or people like me who write books about it.
Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.
Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age.
When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
Friends die, friends become demented, friends quarrel, friends drift with old age into silence.
The goal of my diet-style is eating for optimal health and longevity. What greater benefit could there be than living healthfully and actively into old age with no dependence on medications and almost no risk of heart disease, diabetes or dementia?