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

Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search of it when he has grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul.

Old age: the crown of life, our play’s last act.

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

I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.

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.

It was easy being healthy when I was young. I was full of energy, so sports and physical challenges were fun. But as I got older and the spring left my step, exercise became harder, and eating, drinking and watching TV became easier. By the time I was 50, I’d put on 50 pounds.

As I approached my 95th birthday, I was burdened to write a book that addressed the epidemic of ‚easy believism.‘ There is a mindset today that if people believe in God and do good works, they are going to Heaven.

I’ll die a crazy old man!

Feels good to try, but playing a father, I’m getting a little older. I see now that I’m taking it more serious and I do want that lifestyle.

For years I wanted to be older, and now I am.

Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.

Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.

I don’t write so much now. I’m getting on 33, pot belly and creeping dementia.

Colleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges.

Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.

Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

I was a journeyman chef of middling abilities. Whatever authority I have as a commenter on this world comes from the sheer weight of 28 years in the business. I kicked around for 28 years and came out the other end alive and able to form a sentence.

I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.

I could imagine at a certain age, when I have no vocal cords left, that I would find a young man who could sing my parts for me. But I don’t see why I would stop.

The more cats you have, the longer you live. If you have a hundred cats, you’ll live 10 times longer than if you have 10. Someday this will be discovered, and people will have a thousand cats and live forever. It’s truly ridiculous.

Well, I’m in my 60s now. I finally look it, I think. People until I was 60 would always say they thought I looked younger, which I think, without flattering myself, I did, but I think I certainly have, as George Orwell says people do after a certain age, the face they deserve.

When I was into my 30s, I became increasingly depressed by rejection letters. I had had the feeling that by the time I was 30, I would be established. But I was not at all. By the time of ‚Lives of Girls and Women,‘ I was into my 40s and I had become more thin-skinned.

‚Unforgiven‘ is probably an example of a script that I liked right away but thought, ‚This is great, but I’d like to do this when I’m older.‘ So I stuck it in the drawer for ten years and then took it out.

We grow older, but we do not change. We become more sophisticated, but at bottom we continue to resemble our young selves, eager to listen to the next story and the next, and the next.

I don’t want to be an action star; action star’s life is so short. I want my life to get longer. I want my career to get longer.

There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.

As I get older, I tend to put more into family than I used to.

The older you get, the better you get.

The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.

If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.

I don’t want to be an action star, an action star’s life is so short. I want my life to get longer, I want my career to get longer.

I was the kid that was the 199th pick that never had the body for it. People didn’t think I’d play one year in the NFL, and now I’m going on my 17th year.

If your customer base is aging with you, then eventually you are going to become obsolete or irrelevant. You need to be constantly figuring out who are your new customers and what are you doing to stay forever young.

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won’t save us any more than love did.

The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.

What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.

As long as possible, I would really like to complete one marathon per year. Though my time has been slowing down as I get older, it has become a very important part of my life.

The older I get, the more important the eternal becomes to me personally.

Mortality is very different when you’re 20 to when you’re 50.

You know why Foo Fighters have been a band for 20 years? Because I’ve never really told anybody what I think of them. The last thing you ever want to do is go to therapy with your band.

Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.

How young can you die of old age?

Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.

Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you’d never complete your life, would you? You’d never wholly know you.

Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.

As you get older, you have more responsibilities; you have more commitments, more events, kids, you’re married now. You still have all the things that you’ve had, plus you just keep adding.

A company shouldn’t get addicted to being shiny, because shiny doesn’t last.

We should all start to live before we get too old.

You see the film, you might be entertained, and if it’s not a great film, it loses its power very quickly. I think even simply acceptable books stay with us a lot longer.

Growing old has been the greatest surprise of my life.

Most nations, as well as people are impossible only in their youth; they become incorrigible as they grow older.

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

Books are sharks… because sharks have been around for a very long time. There were sharks before there were dinosaurs, and the reason sharks are still in the ocean is that nothing is better at being a shark than a shark.

People think because I’ve got some success, I’ve made it, but in my eyes it’s like, ‚How long has Jay Z been in the business? How many albums has he got?‘ Not that I’m trying to be Jay Z, but I am trying to be around for a long time.

Most women in my family start to get sick and start dying in their 40s, and I am going to be very happy to become 50 and 60. I love getting older.

Death means change our clothes. Clothes become old, then time to come change. So this body become old, and then time come, take young body.

I intend to live forever, or die trying.