Age doesn’t protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
Old Quotes
Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; for in my youth I never did apply hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; and did not, with unbashful forehead, woo the means of weakness and debility; therefore, my age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly. (As You Like It)
Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.
Preparation for old age should begin not later than one’s teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.
That ends this strange eventful history, Is second childishness and mere oblivion, Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything. (As You Like It)
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.
