“My notion of a wife at 40 is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank note, for two 20s.”
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“Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.”
“In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.”
“The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.”
“Age is how we determine how valuable you are.”
“Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life.”
“To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.”
“If you're old, don't try to change yourself, change your environment.”
“Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.”
“I want to get old gracefully. I want to have good posture, I want to be healthy and be an example to my children.”
“You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.”
“What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.”
“Old age is a shipwreck.”
“While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.”
“To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.”
“Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.”
“No one can avoid aging, but aging productively is something else.”
“If you haven't turned rebel by twenty you've got no heart if you haven't turned establishment by thirty you've got no brains!”
“Oh rage! Oh despair! Oh age, my enemy!”
“Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.”
“We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.”
“Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.”
“No man is ever old enough to know better.”
“In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.”