You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.
Marcus Aurelius

Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.
Dwight L. Moody

There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.
T. S. Eliot

There's one more terrifying fact about old people: I'm going to be one soon.
P. J. O'Rourke

My old drama coach used to say, 'Don't just do something, stand there.' Gary Cooper wasn't afraid to do nothing.
Clint Eastwood

Old age is fifteen years older than I am.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

The 'good old times' - all times when old are good.
Lord Byron

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

A new untruth is better than an old truth.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Now, I think that I should have known that he was magic all along. I did know it - but I should have guessed that it would be too much to ask to grow old with and see our children grow up together. So now, he is a legend when he would have preferred to be a man.
Jackie Kennedy

Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.
Soren Kierkegaard

Back in the old Corp, we weren't training those privates to infiltrate into the peacetime Marine Corp. We were training those privates to go to Vietnam.
R. Lee Ermey

Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.
Douglas MacArthur

And like the old soldier in that ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the sight to see that duty.
Douglas MacArthur