The whole business of marshaling one’s
The whole business of marshaling one’s energies becomes more and more important as one grows older. Hume Cronyn
When a noble life has prepared old age,
When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality. Muriel Spark
The lovely thing about being forty
The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more. Colleen McCullough
There is an anti-aging possibility
There is an anti-aging possibility, but it has to come from within. Susan Anton
The really frightening thing
The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you’ll grow out of it. Doris Day
I get all fired up
I get all fired up about aging in America. Willard Scott
Those who love deeply never grow old they may die of old age,
Those who love deeply never grow old they may die of old age, but they die young. Dorothy Canfield Fisher
There’s no such thing as old age
There’s no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow. Fay Weldon
In old age we are like
In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived. Knut Hamsun
To keep the heart unwrinkled
To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent – that is to triumph over old age. Thomas Bailey Aldrich