I have this weird thing about my face that it needs to look super young.

Your 40s are a major trough. About the age of 50, feelings of satisfaction begin to rebound and keep rising into your 50s, 60s and 70s, with health being a major factor.

Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples.

Aging nations have arteries clogged with obsolete laws, slowing blood flow and preventing oxygen from reaching all parts of the body politic. Physicians call this arteriosclerosis; historians see...

I have become politically correct now. I have curbed my enthusiasm. I am in my mid-40s, so it doesn't make sense to talk brashly like a 20-year-old.

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.

Patience makes a woman beautiful in middle age.

Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.

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

For the unlearned old age is winter; for the learned, it is the season of the harvest.

Oh, you mysterious girls, when you are fifty-two we shall find you out; you must come into the open then. If the mouth has fallen sourly yours the blame: all the meanness your youth concealed have...

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.

Folks double my age and older often run down a conversation tracking a vanishing world that will, with the passing of their memory, vanish entirely.

All are dead, and ourselves left alone amidst a new generation whom we know not, and who know us not.

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

I have to start loving what comes next and stop hating I won't be a part of it.

Today there is no symbolic compensation for old age, no recognition of a specific value: wisdom, perceptiveness, experience, vision.

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.

Even now, every job I get, I worry that it will be my last. I think becoming a washed-up hag is sort of my destiny. So if you see a wrinkled old bitch wearing a tattered fur and chain-smoking in an...

"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...

Liza hated alcoholic liquors with an iron zeal. Drinking alcohol in any form she regarded as a crime against a properly outraged deity... When Liza was about seventy her elimination slowed up and her...

People seem to overlook an old man losing his mind if he occasionally made light of it.

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.

She had had her momentary flowering, a year, perhaps, of wildrose beauty, and then she had suddenly swollen like a fertilized fruit and grown hard and red and coarse, and then her life had been...

Age is only a number. Keep an active life.

Women not only bear the burden of societal expectations surrounding beauty and youth, but they also perpetuate these standards themselves—every time we dye our hair to hide gray or downplay our age,...

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.

When you are young, you think that the old lament the deterioration of life because this makes it easier for them to die without regret. When you are old, you become impatient with the way in which...