Old age is a shipwreck.
Charles de Gaulle

Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.
Louis Kronenberger

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

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.
Golda Meir

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
Theodore Roosevelt

Old age is no place for sissies.
Bette Davis

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.
James Thurber

Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.
Confucius

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

The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.
Doug Larson

The answer to old age is to keep one's mind busy and to go on with one's life as if it were interminable. I always admired Chekhov for building a new house when he was dying of tuberculosis.
Leon Edel

The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood.
Logan P. Smith

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.
Doris Lessing

The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.
Doris Day

The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.
Bob Wells

The trick is growing up without growing old.
Casey Stengel

The whole business of marshaling one's energies becomes more and more important as one grows older.
Hume Cronyn

There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, we know it was much later.
Mignon McLaughlin

There is an anti-aging possibility, but it has to come from within.
Susan Anton

There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.
Fay Weldon