As you get older, you’re not afraid of doubt. Doubt isn’t running the show. You take out all the self-agonizing.

I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.

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

When I reached 80, my world turned upside down physically. I’ve had a lot of physical problems.

As you get older, time speeds up but life slows down.

Every man I meet is in some way my superior.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

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

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

I never thought I would be such a family-oriented guy; I didn’t think that was part of my makeup. But somebody said that as you get older, you become the person you always should have been, and I feel that’s happening to me.

When I was young, I could not imagine being old. My mother said, and the doctor confirmed, that I had an unusual amount of energy; and it followed me into young adulthood.

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.

Some people spend their lives building ultimate dream homes so they can enjoy their twilight years… Others spend their last days in nursing homes.

Nevertheless, whether in occurrences lasting days, hours or mere minutes at a time, I have experienced happiness often, and have had brief encounters with it in my later years, even in old age.

I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don’t retire before I go senile, then I’ll do more damage than good at that point.

My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.

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.

Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.

Don’t get older just to get wiser. If you get older, you will be wiser, I believe that – if you dare. But get older because it’s fun!

Medicines are only fit for old people.

You know you’re getting old when you get that one candle on the cake. It’s like, ‚See if you can blow this out.‘

Don’t get old, if you can avoid it.

Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age.

I’ve been running a full marathon every year for more than 20 years, and my record is getting worse. Getting older, getting worse. It’s natural.

My grandfather lived to be late 90s on one side and on the other side, 70s or something. And my father died young, at 63. But he didn’t take very good care of himself.

Wrinkles will only go where the smiles have been.

It seems sensible to me that we should look to the medical profession, that over the centuries has helped us to live longer and healthier lives, to help us die peacefully among our loved ones in our own home without a long stay in God’s waiting room.

Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.

As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

I wear make-up, and it gets a little bit thicker every year.

I think it would be interesting if old people got anti-Alzheimer’s disease where they slowly began to recover other people’s lost memories.

Education is the best provision for old age.

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

As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.

That’s something I think is growing on me as I get older: happy endings.

I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older; then it dawned on me – they’re cramming for their final exam.

You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

I’m saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it’s at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others.

I’ll die a crazy old man!

I have 22 grandchildren and great-grandchildren, and they keep me young.

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

It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, – superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.

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 have quite a decent constitution in spite of all my abuse of it and my advanced years. I’m still quite robust.

By the time you’ve reached your sixties, you do know that one day you will die, and knowing that is at least the beginning of wisdom.

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.

‚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.

Aging can be fun if you lay back and enjoy it.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

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

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

Society has made us believe you should look like an 18-year-old model all your life.

Everything I read about hitting a midlife crisis was true. I had such a struggle letting go of youthful things and learning how to exist and have enthusiasm while settling into the comfort of an older age.

The older you get, the better you get.

You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it.

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven’t committed.