Not even old age knows how to love death.
Sophocles

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

No lie ever reaches old age.
Sophocles

Old age and the passage of time teach all things.
Sophocles

The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

When I came back to Britain, I realized that I was no longer a very young woman. I had to meet my new consciousness, my new age, with roles that reflected it somewhat.
Julie Christie

It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.
William James

If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost.
Michel Foucault

When you get to a certain age, there is no coming back.
Brian Clough

Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.
Louisa May Alcott

O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I would go out with women my age, but there are no women my age.
George Burns

No, but way before that, I've been doing little dances in movies for years. Yeah, that was an amazing chance. You know, at my age to be able to do a music dance video, very unusual.
Christopher Walken

America doesn't reward people of my age, either in day-to-day life or for their performances.
Meryl Streep

Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Sex at age 90 is like trying to shoot pool with a rope.
George Burns