Dignity, high station, or great riches are in some sort necessary to old men, in order to keep the younger at a distance, who are otherwise too apt to insult them upon the score of their age.
The young feel tired at the end of an action; The old at the beginning.
Old foxes want no tutors.
Old birds are hard to pluck.
A man of fifty looks as old as Santa Claus to a girl of twenty.
How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?
The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.
Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavour to understand him.
Zsa Zsa Gabor, when asked which of the Gabor women was the oldest, said "She'll never admit it, but I believe it is Mama." When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.
When you are forty, half of you belongs to the past. . . And when you are seventy, nearly all of you.
To an old man any place that's warm is homeland.
By the time a man gets well into his seventies his continued existence is a mere miracle.
One trouble with growing older is that it gets progressively tougher to find a famous historical figure who didn't amount to much when he was your age.
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age.
Middle age is youth without its levity, And age without decay.
And he (King David) died in a good old age, full of days, riches and honour.
I never dared be radical when young For fear it would make me conservative when old.
Old age is by nature rather talkative.
Old age, especially an honoured old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.
Age has a good mind and sorry shanks.
