Old age may have its limitations and challenges, but in spite of them, our latter years can be some of the most rewarding and fulfilling of our lives. – Billy Graham
Most women are indulgent of themselves. This is a mistake. It should be only the reward of old age. – Anna Held
To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent – that is to triumph over old age. – Thomas Bailey Aldrich
The crucial task of old age is balance: keeping just well enough, just brave enough, just gay and interested and starkly honest enough to remain a sentient human being. – Florida Scott-Maxwell
I don’t know what’s happened to me. I’ve got a bit more sophisticated in my old age. I like a bit of jasmine tea. I love it. – Danny Dyer
Not everything in old age is grim. I haven’t walked through an airport for years, and wheelchairs are the way to travel. – Donald Hall
It is, of course, quite natural that a biologist whose attention had been aroused by noticing in his own case the phenomena of precocious old age should turn to study the causes of it. – Elie Metchnikoff
Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do. – Golda Meir
The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age. – George Santayana
Old age has got to start creeping up on me one day soon, and frankly I’m very scared. I don’t want to be old. I’ve always felt so young. And I want to stay that way. – David Niven
I was always proud of being tough-minded, and I think I still am, but in my old age I’ve got a little softer in the head, and that’s all right. – Nora Ephron
We’ve put more effort into helping folks reach old age than into helping them enjoy it. – Frank A. Clark
New poems no longer come to me with their prodigies of metaphor and assonance. Prose endures. I feel the circles grow smaller, and old age is a ceremony of losses, which is, on the whole, preferable to dying at forty-seven or fifty-two. – Donald Hall
When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality. – Muriel Spark
The appearance of aged persons is too well known to make detailed description necessary. The skin of the face is dry and wrinkled and generally pale. The hairs on the head and the body are white. The back is bent, and the gait is slow and laborious, whilst the memory is weak. Such are the most familiar traits of old age. – Elie Metchnikoff
There’s no such thing as old age. I’m no different now than I was 50 years ago. I’m just having more fun. – Philip Johnson