There are three classes into which all the women past seventy that ever I knew were to be divided: 1. That dear old soul; 2. That old woman; 3. That old witch.
Old Quotes
You know you’re old if they have discontinued your blood type.
Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
A man is as old as he’s feeling, A woman as old as she looks.
Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.
Filth and old age, I’m sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.
For in all the world there are no people so piteous and forlorn as those who are forced to eat the bitter bread of dependency in their old age, and find how steep are the stairs of another man’s house. Wherever they go they know themselves unwelcome. Wherever they are, they feel themselves a burden. […]
Old age isn’t so bad when you consider the alternative.
When young we are faithful to individuals, when older we grow more loyal to situations and to types.
