The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.
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Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength.
Old age is fifteen years older than I am.
As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost.
Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.
There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone but, years after, we know it was much later.
Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.
Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.
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Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.
Old minds are like old horses you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.
Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.
There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated ag…
After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.
It takes a long time to become young.
When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.
Advice in old age is foolish for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.
I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.
As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never …
I don't feel old. I don't feel anything till noon. That's when it's time for my nap.
Old age is no place for sissies.
Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
Age considers youth ventures.
I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
A man growing old becomes a child again.