Age
Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.
André Maurois (1885-1967) French writer.
When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.
Mark Twain (1835-1910) U.S. humorist, writer, and lecturer.
The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
T. S. Eliot (1888-1965) American-English poet and playwright.
He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise.
George Herbert (1593-1632) British poet.
With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. [Merchant Of Venice]
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) British poet and playwright.
The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.
Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832) British clergyman, sportsman and author.
Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo (1802-1885) French poet, dramatist and novelist.
When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.
Victor Hugo (1802-1885) French poet, dramatist and novelist.
Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
Francis Bacon (1561-1626) British statesman and philosopher.
We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873) British politician, poet and critic.