Middle age is youth without levity
Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay. Doris Day
In youth we run into difficulties
In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us. Beverly Sills
We pay when old for the excesses
We pay when old for the excesses of youth. J. B. Priestley
The answer to old age is to keep one’s
The answer to old age is to keep one’s mind busy and to go on with one’s life as if it were interminable. I always admired Chekhov for building a new house when he was dying of tuberculosis. Leon Edel
We’ve put more effort into helping folks
We’ve put more effort into helping folks reach old age than into helping them enjoy it. Frank A. Clark
I’m not afraid
I’m not afraid of aging. Shelley Duvall
He has a profound respect for old age.
He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it’s bottled. Gene Fowler
Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it,
Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age. Sinclair Lewis
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
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