"Besides, wouldn't it be wonderful if no one ever had to worry about the random cruelty of fatal illness or the woes of old age attacking them or their loved ones?"

"Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end"

"You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned"

"The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured"

"All diseases run into one, old age"

"Old age is no place for sissies"

"Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age"

"How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete"

"Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man"

"We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave"

"To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am"