“We pay when old for the excesses of youth.”
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“The answer to old age is to keep one's mind busy and to go on with one's life as if it were interminable. I always admired Chekhov for building a new house when he was dying of tuberculosis.”
“We've put more effort into helping folks reach old age than into helping them enjoy it.”
“The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.”
“I'm not afraid of aging.”
“He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled.”
“In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived.”
“There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.”
“I get all fired up about aging in America.”
“There is an anti-aging possibility, but it has to come from within.”
“The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more.”
“When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.”
“The whole business of marshaling one's energies becomes more and more important as one grows older.”
“The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.”
“Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice it whitens only the hair.”
“As men get older, the toys get more expensive.”
“I find that a man is as old as his work. If his work keeps him from moving forward, he will look forward with the work.”
“A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, 'At my age, I don't even buy green bananas.'”
“Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.”
“Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you'd never complete your life, would you? You'd never wholly know you.”
“The kids are old enough now - I just want to let them be kids. I don't want to comment on them too much. They're at an age where I just want to let them be kids.”
“I've got volumes on how not to behave. I've got more information now than a guy should have at my age.”
“Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.”
“I must confess, I was born at a very early age.”