Old Age and Ageing

Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.

As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.

Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.

Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

Youth lives on hope, old age on remembrance.

So different are the colors of life as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past . . . that the conversation of the old and young ends generally with contempt or pity on either side.

The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.

Years following years steal something every day; At last they steal us from ourselves away.

Years are only garments, and you either wear them with style all your life, or else you go dowdy to the grave.

Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up.

I will offer here, as a sound maxim, this: That we can’t reach old age by another man’s road.

In old age our bodies are worn-out instruments, on which the soul tries in vain to play the melodies of youth. But because the instrument has lost its strings, or is out of tune, it does not follow that the musician has lost his skill.

And what would it be to grow old? For, after a certain distance, every step we take in life we find the ice growing thinner below our feet, and all around us and behind us we see our contemporaries going through.

One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.

Old age was growing inside me. It kept catching my eye from the depths of the mirror. I was paralyzed sometimes as I saw it make its way for me so steadily when nothing inside me was ready for it.

GOLF IS A GAME IN WHICH YOU CAN CLAIM THE PRIVILEGES OF AGE AND RETAIN THE PLAYTHINGS OF CHILDHOOD.

We are always the same age inside.

I DON’T BELIEVE IN AGEING. I BELIEVE IN FOREVER ALTERING ONE’S ASPECT TO THE SUN.

Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

AGE DOES NOT PROTECT YOU FROM LOVE. BUT LOVE, TO SOME EXTENT, PROTECTS YOU FROM AGE.

We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

The wiser mind mourns less for what Age takes away, than what it leaves behind.

You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.

To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.