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.

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.

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.

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.

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...

It occurred to Jeff that he had entered the vague phase of his life. He had a vague idea of things, a vague sense of what was happening in the world, a vague sense of having meant someone before. It...

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

He was a worn-out old man whose eyes had quit caring about anything but the odds on three-year-olds.

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.

Now his children are getting old too, like him, and they have children and nobody wants the old man anymore and they are waiting for him to die. But he don't want to die. He wants to keep on living...

Youth is the hardest time in life. One seldom hears of an old person committing suicide.

The second rule states that perfume lives with time; it has stages of youth, maturity, and old age. Only when it surpasses these different stages while maintaining the same fragrance intensity does it...

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