Old age and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance.
My life, I realize suddenly, is July. Childhood is June, and old age is August, but here it is, July, and my life, this year, is July inside of July.
Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.
I admire those people who hold on to their elegance in old age but I'd rather have fun.
Old age and the passage of time teach all things.
When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.
A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.
When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.
Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.
While I had often said that I wanted to die in bed, what I really meant was that in my old age I wanted to be stepped on by an elephant while making love.