Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
Jonathan Swift

Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time.
Charles de Gaulle

Old age is a shipwreck.
Charles de Gaulle

Exceptions are not always the proof of the old rule; they can also be the harbinger of a new one.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

None are so eager to gain new experience as those who don't know how to make use of the old ones.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

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

The young physician starts life with 20 drugs for each disease, and the old physician ends life with one drug for 20 diseases.
William Osler

You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
Bob Hope

I don't feel old. I don't feel anything till noon. That's when it's time for my nap.
Bob Hope

You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
Bob Hope

No one should ever sit in this office over 70 years old, and that I know.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old - old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.
Rush Limbaugh

You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.
George Burns

You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you're down there.
George Burns

How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
George Burns

"Think simple" as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles.
Frank Lloyd Wright

I have no name: I am but two days old. What shall I call thee? I happy am, Joy is my name. Sweet joy befall thee!
William Blake

Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity.
William Blake

To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity.
Thomas A. Edison