The role of a retired person is no longer to possess one.
~ Simone De Beauvoir
Middle age: when you're sitting at home on Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.
~ Ogden Nash
No Spring nor Summer beauty hath such grace As I have seen in one Autumnal face.
~ John Donne
If you live long enough the venerability factor creeps in you get accused of things you never did and praised for virtues you never had.
~ I. F. Stone
I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left.
~ Voltaire
Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form.
~ Andri Maurois
Old age is an island surrounded by death.
~ Juan Montalvo
It is time to be old To take in sail.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
I feel age like an icicle down my back.
~ Dyson Carter
Old age is a time of humiliations the most disagreeable of which for me is that I cannot work long at sustained high pressure with no leaks in concentration.
~ Igor Stravinsky
Dignity high station or great riches are in some sort necessary to old men in order to keep the younger at a distance who are otherwise too apt to insult them upon the score of their age.
~ Jonathan Swift
The young feel tired at the end of an action The old at the beginning.
~ T. S. Eliot
Old foxes want no tutors.
~ Thomas Fuller
Old birds are hard to pluck.
~ German Proverb
A man of fifty looks as old as Santa Claus to a girl of twenty.
~ William Feather
How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?
~ Satchel Paige
The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.
~ Quentin Crisp
Before you contradict an old man my fair friend you should endeavour to understand him.
~ George Santayana
Zsa Zsa Gabor when asked which of the Gabor women was the oldest said She'll never admit it but I believe it is Mama. When men grow virtuous in their old age they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.
When you are forty half of you belongs to the past. . . And when you are seventy nearly all of you.
~ Jean Anouilh
To an old man any place that's warm is homeland.
~ Maxim Gorky
By the time a man gets well into his seventies his continued existence is a mere miracle.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
One trouble with growing older is that it gets progressively tougher to find a famous historical figure who didn't amount to much when he was your age.
~ Bill Vaughan
Forty is the old age of youth fifty is the youth of old age.
~ Victor Hugo
Middle age is youth without its levity And age without decay.
~ Daniel Defoe
And he (King David) died in a good old age full of days riches and honour.
~ Bible
I never dared be radical when young For fear it would make me conservative when old.
~ Robert Frost
Old age is by nature rather talkative.
~ Cicero
Old age especially an honoured old age has so great authority that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.
Age has a good mind and sorry shanks.
~ Pietro Aretino
To me old age is always fifteen years older than I am.
~ Bernard Baruch
Few people know how to be old.
~ La Rochefoucauld
First you forget names then you forget faces then you forget to pull your zipper up then you forget to pull your zipper down.
~ Leo Rosenberg
I really believe that more harm is done by old men who cling to their influence than by young men who anticipate it.
~ Owen D. Young
He had come to that time in his life (it varies for every man) when a human being gives himself over to his demon or to his genius according to a mysterious law which orders him either to destroy or to surpass himself.
~ Marguerite Yourcenar
The individual succumbs but he does not die if he has left something to mankind.
~ Will Durant
It is always in season for old men to learn.
~ Aeschylus
So lively brisk old fellow don't let age get you down. White hairs or not you can still be a lover.
~ Goethe
He that has seen both sides of fifty has lived to little purpose if he has no other views of the world than he had when he was much younger.
~ William Cowper
Let us respect gray hairs especially our own.
~ J. P. Senn
