Old Age and Ageing

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.

Education is the best provision for old age.

I have achieved my seventy years in the usual way: by sticking strictly to a scheme of life which would kill anybody else... I will offer here, as a sound maxim, this: That we can't reach old age by another man's road.

Politicians, old buildings, and prostitutes become respectable with age.

The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.

I was young and foolish then; now I am old and foolisher .

Seventy is old enough. After that there is too much risk.

You cant reach old age by another man's road, my habits protect my life but they would assassinate you

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been .

I am pushing sixty. That is enough exercise for me.

When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old .

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter .

Old age takes in part savory wisdom for its food, see to that your old age will not lack in nourishment.

In the days of thy youth seek to obtain that which shall compensate the losses of thy old age.

Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age; and if you understand that old age has wisdom for its food, you will so conduct yourself in youth that your old age will not lack for nourishment.