With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. (Merchant of Venice)
Old Quotes
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.)
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)
