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.
The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.
As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost.
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.
Whenever I go to New York or any European country, they say: ‘Nawal, why don’t you get a facelift?’ I tell them, ‘I am proud of my wrinkles. Every wrinkle on my face tells the story of my life. Why should I hide my age?’
We were never supposed to live until 40. We were built to self-destruct at 30, whether from cancer or mental illness. We’re all going way beyond our expiration date.
Old age and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance.
When I turned 60, it didn’t bother me at all.
Love has no age, no limit; and no death.
Poor eating habits developed at an early age lead to a lifetime of real health consequences.
In youth we learn; in age we understand.
Age is something that doesn’t matter, unless you are a cheese.
A birthday is just another day where you go to work and people give you love. Age is just a state of mind, and you are as old as you think you are. You have to count your blessings and be happy.
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.
Age is just a number. It’s totally irrelevant unless, of course, you happen to be a bottle of wine.
Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years.
I cried on my 18th birthday. I thought 17 was such a nice age. You’re young enough to get away with things, but you’re old enough, too.
Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age.
If you love someone, you love someone. It doesn’t matter; age, colour, c’mon!
Marriage is not about age; it’s about finding the right person.
People quit on jobs. They quit on marriages. They quit on school. There’s an immediacy of this day and age that doesn’t lend itself to being committed to anything.
Age is something that doesn’t matter, unless you are a cheese.
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
Old age isn’t so bad when you consider the alternative.
We’re not in an information age anymore. We’re in the information management age.
