"We've put more effort into helping folks reach old age than into helping them enjoy it"

"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"

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

"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"

"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"

"To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age"

"Old age is the verdict of life"

"It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time"

"Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative"

"Old age and the passage of time teach all things"

"Not even old age knows how to love death"