I was an old man when I was 12; and now I am an old man, and it’s splendid! (on his seventieth birthday)
Old Quotes
The glance over cocktails That seemed to be so sweet Doesn’t seem quite so amorous Over Shredded Wheat.
Seventy is wormwood, Seventy is gall But its better to be seventy, Than not alive at all.
I’m just wandering, I think of things and then they go away forever. (Describing her inability to write caused by the onset of Alzheimer’s disease.)
When the age is in, the wit is out. (Much Ado About Nothing)
If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.
Middle age is when you’ve met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.
My oil-dried lamp, shall be extinct with age. My inch of taper will be burnt and done. (Richard III)
Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you are aboard there is nothing you can do about it.
Middle age ends and senescence begins, The day your descendants outnumber your friends.
