There was no last animal I treated. When young farm lads started to help me over the gate into a field or a pigpen, to make sure the old fellow wouldn't fall, I started to consider retiring.

I don't want to fight aging; I want to take good care of myself, but plastic surgery and all that? I'm not interested.

When we're young we want to change the world. When we're old we want to change the young.

In the old pieces of furniture almost as in the old paintings, dwells the charm of the past, of the faded which becomes stronger in a man when he reaches an advanced age.

People don't get gentler as they get older but rather, harder.

You are old and grey, she teased. And you're never too immortal for a spanking, he shot back...

Old age ain't no place for sissies.

"You are young," said my father. "You won't get any younger even if you clean your teeth twice a day." "You'll get older," said my mother, "that's what happens." "Then what happens?" "You won't be...

Everything breaks down but desire. And because we are old, doctors try to shame that out of us. Young punks! Lose one's youth, and doctors take it as axiomatic that you've lost your mind, your balls.

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.

He remembers what I forget and I remember what he forgets. It's too late for either of us to make another old friend.

But the problem with crests is that they lead downhill. From the crest I can see all the rest of my years stretched out before me. And the view doesn't please me. I see only aging, diminishment,...

There was something to be said for dying before you ended up in incontinence pads, watching an endless loop of reruns of Friends.

... a man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.

Age has given me what I was looking for my entire life - it has given me . It has provided time and experience and failures and triumphs and time-tested friends who have helped me step into the shape...

Age had not made him less handsome, as is so often the case; it had simply made him less visible.

...is not all philosophy but preparation for a serene dying?

I am afraid that as people grow old there is a tendency for them to believe that what the past *ought* to have been it was.

Most teenage girls don't give old people the time of day which is sad because all old people do all the time is think about how nice it was to be a teenager so long ago.

It's very simple. As you grow, you learn more. If you stayed twenty-two, you'd always be as ignorant as you were at twenty-two. Aging is not just decay, you know. It's growth. It's more than the...

You know what that reflects? Unsatisfied lives. Unfulfilled lives. Lives that haven't found meaning. Because if you've found meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go forward....