Hilda Oti 

The elderly don't drive that badly; they're just the only ones with time to do the speed limit. ~Jason Love

 

Age attacks when we least expect it. ~Terri Guillemets

 

May we keep a little of the fuel of youth to warm our body in old age. ~Minna Thomas Antrim

 

There is this value about the colour that men call colourless; that it suggests in some way the mixed and troubled averages of existence, especially in its quality of strife and expectation and promise. Grey is a colour that always seems on the eve of changing to some other colour; of brightening into blue or blanching into white or bursting into green and gold. So we may be perpetually reminded of the indefinite hope that is in doubt itself; and when there is grey weather in our hills or grey hairs in our heads, perhaps they may still remind us of the morning. ~G.K. Chesterton

 

It's a mere moment in a man's life between an All-Star Game and an Old-timers' Game. ~Vin Scully

 

It seems no more than right that men should seize time by the forelock, for the rude old fellow, sooner or later, pulls all their hair out. ~George Dennison Prentice

 

At another year I would not boggle except that when I jog I joggle. ~Ogden Nash

 

It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart. ~Edward Bulwer-Lytton

 

Does age poison us, or do we poison age? ~Terri Guillemets

 

Middle age: The time when you'll do anything to feel better, except give up what is hurting you. ~Robert Quillen

 

Old age puts more wrinkles in our minds than on our faces. ~Michel de Montaigne

 

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen. ~Mark Twain

 

The arctic loneliness of age. ~S. Weir Mitchell

 

Thanks to modern medical advances such as antibiotics, nasal spray, and Diet Coke, it has become routine for people in the civilized world to pass the age of 40, sometimes more than once. ~Dave Barry

 

 

The true way to render age vigorous is to prolong the youth of the mind. ~Mortimer Collins

 

A man is as old as he's feeling, A woman as old as she looks. ~Mortimer Collins

 

When the problem is not so much resisting temptation as finding it, you may just be getting older. ~Author Unknown

 

 

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. ~Henry Ford

 

I am getting old and the sign of old age is that I begin to philosophize and ponder over problems which should not be my concern at all. ~Jawaharlal Nehru

 

Sometimes age succeeds, sometimes it fails. It depends on you. ~Ravensara Noite

 

An old woman looks in a mirror, recalls a little girl with a rag doll, and wonders what became of the little girl. ~Robert Brault

 

The best thing about getting old is that all those things you couldn't have when you were young you no longer want. ~L.S. McCandless

 

I never felt that there was anything enviable in youth. I cannot recall that any of us, as youths, admired our condition to excess or had a desire to prolong it. ~Bernard Berenson

 

Middle age is when work is a lot less fun and fun is a lot more work. ~Author Unknown

 

Sometimes it takes years to really grasp what has happened to your life. ~Wilma Rudolph

 

When our vices desert us, we flatter ourselves that we are deserting our vices. ~Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld

 

We thought we were running away from the grown-ups, and now we're the grown-ups. ~Margaret Atwood

 

There is a certain even-handed justice in Time; and for what he takes away he gives us something in return. He robs us of elasticity of limb and spirit, and in its place he brings tranquility and repose—the mild autumnal weather of the soul. ~Alexander Smith

 

There is a slow-growing beauty which only comes to perfection in old age.... I have seen sweeter smiles on a lip of seventy than I ever saw on a lip of seventeen. There is the beauty of youth, and there is also the beauty of holiness—a beauty much more seldom met; and more frequently found in the arm-chair by the fire, with grandchildren around its knee, than in the ball-room or the promenade. ~Alexander Smith

 

There is only one cure for gray hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine. ~P.G. Wodehouse

 

Life is like a roll of toilet paper. The closer you get to the end, the faster it goes. ~Author Unknown

 

Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature. ~Harold Coffin

 

 

Old age is a lot of crossed off names in an address book. ~Ronald Blythe

 

My wrinkles are a playground of happy memories. ~Terri Guillemets

 

You spend the first two-thirds of your life asking to be left alone and the last third not having to ask. ~Robert Brault

 

It well becomes a man who is no longer young to forget that he ever was. ~Seigneur de Saint-Evremond

 

When the straight, eager forms that we knew in youth Become bent with age, we rebel at the truth. That never, again, will they be young and strong; For old age—so ruthless!—has now come along. ~Gertrude Tooley

 

Age is like the newest version of a software — it has a bunch of great new features but you lost all the cool features the original version had. ~Carrie Latet

 

Age swallows our childhood. ~Terri Guillemets

 

When I was 40, my doctor advised me that a man in his 40s shouldn't play tennis. I heeded his advice carefully and could hardly wait until I reached 50 to start again. ~Hugo L. Black

 

In youth we are plagued by desire; in later years, by the desire to feel desire. ~Mignon McLaughlin

 

You get to an age when there are really just two reasons to get up in the morning — for goodness sake and for heaven's sake. ~Robert Brault

 

When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings. ~Jonathan Swift

 

They talk about the economy this year. Hey, my hairline is in recession, my waistline is in inflation. Altogether, I'm in a depression. ~Rick Majerus

 

Few people know how to be old. ~Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld

 

We are only young once. That is all society can stand. ~Bob Bowen

 

I am getting to an age when I can only enjoy the last sport left. It is called hunting for your spectacles. ~Edward Grey

 

The lost leaves measure our years; they are gone as the days are gone. ~Richard Jefferies

I don't know how you feel about old age... but in my case I didn't even see it coming. It hit me from the rear. ~Phyllis Diller

 

Growing old is a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form. ~Andre Maurois

 

You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old. ~George Burns

 

What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy. ~Voltaire

 

You can't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again. ~Bonnie Prudden

 

The trick is growing up without growing old. ~Casey Stengel

 

It takes about ten years to get used to how old you are. ~Quoted by Raymond A. Michel

 

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

 

The older you get the stronger the wind gets — and it's always in your face. ~Jack Nicklaus

 

You're only as young as the last time you changed your mind. ~Timothy Leary

 

It takes a long time to become young. ~Pablo Picasso

 

The problem with beauty is that it's like being born rich and getting poorer. ~Joan Collins

 

I never dared be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.

~Robert Frost

 

The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood. ~Logan Pearsall Smith

 

Middle age is when your classmates are so gray and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you. ~Bennett Cerf

 

I am old enough to see how little I have done in so much time, and how much I have to do in so little. ~Sheila Kaye-Smith

 

There is always some specific moment when we realize our youth is gone; but years after, we know it was much later. ~Mignon McLaughlin

 

 

When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age. ~Victor Hugo

 

Youth is when you are allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you are forced to. ~Bill Vaughn

 

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country. ~Kurt Vonnegut

 

At sixteen I was stupid, confused and indecisive. At twenty-five I was wise, self-confident, prepossessing and assertive. At forty-five I am stupid, confused, insecure and indecisive. Who would have supposed that maturity is only a short break in adolescence? ~Jules Feiffer

 

Never lose sight of the fact that old age needs so little but needs that little so much. ~Margaret Willour