A solemn, unsmiling, sanctimonious old iceberg who looked like he was waiting for a vacancy in the Trinity.
Age Quotes
We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public.
Old men must die, or the word would grow moldy, would only breed the past again.
Threescore years and ten! It is the Scriptural statute of limitations. After that, you owe no active duties; for you the strenuous life is over. You are a time-expired man, to use Kipling’s military phrase: You have served your term, well or less well, and you are mustered out. You are become an honorary member […]
Old age is a special problem for me because I’ve never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself-a lad of about 19.
I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.
Old age is an incurable disease.
We are always the same age inside.
There are people whose watch stops at a certain hour and who remain permanently at that age.
Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.
