It takes some little time to accept and realize the fact that while you have been growing old, your friends have not been standing still.
Old Quotes
The older I get, the better I was.
Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form.
When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.
With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. (Merchant of Venice)
No gray hairs streak my soul, no grandfatherly fondness there! I shake the world with the might of my voice, and walk – handsome, twenty-two years old.
One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up.
Have you not a moist eye, a dry hand, a yellow cheek, a white beard, a decreasing leg, an increasing belly? Is not your voice broken, your wind short, your chin double, your wit single, and every part about you blasted with antiquity? (Henry IV)
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.)
