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

You know when you’re young and you see a play in high school, and the guys all have gray in their hair and they’re trying to be old men and they have no idea what that’s like? It’s just that stupid the other way around.

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

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

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

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

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

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.

When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it’s a sure sign you’re getting old.

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

I have discovered that just because we grow weaker physically as we age, it doesn’t mean that we must grow weaker spiritually.

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.

I don’t have this feeling that 70 is really old.

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

Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

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

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

I have never felt more confident in myself, more clear on who I am as a woman. But I am constantly thinking about my own health and making sure that I’m eating right and getting exercise and watching the aches and pains. I want to be this really fly 80-90-year old.

I think it’s good for a woman to put on a bit of weight when she gets older – it looks better. But a man has to stay balanced.

It seems the older you get, the more life comes into focus.

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

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.

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

Heaven is long-enduring, and earth continues long. The reason why heaven and earth are able to endure and continue thus long is because they do not live of, or for, themselves.

Life’s tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.

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

Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.

Most people don’t grow up. It’s too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older. That’s the truth of it. They honor their credit cards, they find parking spaces, they marry, they have the nerve to have children, but they don’t grow up.

‚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.

As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And what do I do with the time I’ve got left?

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

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

Dressing up is a bore. At a certain age, you decorate yourself to attract the opposite sex, and at a certain age, I did that. But I’m past that age.

I’ll die a crazy old man!

Car designers are just going to have to come up with an automobile that outlasts the payments.

You know, there are artists who are 35 and up that still make rap and that still works for them. I don’t know if I want to be that guy.

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.

Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?

There are three faithful friends – an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

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

Maybe I should say that memory interests me a great deal, because I think we all tell stories of our lives to ourselves as well as to other people. Well, women do, anyway. Women do this a lot. And I think when men get older, they do this too, but maybe in slightly different terms.

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.

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.

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

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

To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.

Old age is just a record of one’s whole life.

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.

I’m proud to be an actor. See, as an actor, you live longer. Football players, the brain and all that stuff, ooh-eee, that’s not good.

Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.

I never – you know also one of the things that would save me for a man my age, it was not that easy to lose that much weight and fall down and look like something draped.

At my advanced age – I’m now an octogenarian – I’m constantly amazed by the number of people who want to take my picture.

Old age may have its limitations and challenges, but in spite of them, our latter years can be some of the most rewarding and fulfilling of our lives.

It is really very important while you are young to live in an environment in which there is no fear. Most of us, as we grow older, become frightened; we are afraid of living, afraid of losing a job, afraid of tradition, afraid of what the neighbours, or what the wife or husband would say, afraid of death.

Fortunately for a quarterback, you can play for a long time because you don’t get hit very often.

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.

Starting at about, I guess, forever, I’ve always looked forward to getting older. When I was 14, I couldn’t wait to be 16 and get a driver’s license.

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.

I don’t believe you could be a 39-year-old quarterback in the NFL and eat cheeseburgers every day. I want to be able to do what I love to do for a long time.