When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.
Old Quotes
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.)
When the age is in, the wit is out. (Much Ado About Nothing)
The evening of a well spent life brings its lamps with it.
Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can’t quite name.
