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

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

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

The most important thing I can tell you about aging is this: If you really feel that you want to have an off-the-shoulder blouse and some big beads and thong sandals and a dirndl skirt and a magnolia in your hair, do it. Even if you’re wrinkled.

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

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

Prime time for men is, say, 35 to 45. Then they level off and fall off.

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.

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

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.

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.

Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

I think that as you grow up, as you get older, we can’t get bitter, we can’t get jaded.

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.

All my life I’ve been taught how to die, but no one ever taught me how to grow old.

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

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 intend to live forever. So far, so good.

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.

I’ll die a crazy old man!

Life, if well lived, is long enough.

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.

Unlike Europe, China can’t be intimidated. Europe backs down if the United States looks at it the wrong way. But China, they’ve been there for 3,000 years and are paying no attention to the barbarians and don’t see any need to.

I’ve been around longer than most of my fans have been alive.

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

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

Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.

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.

I’m getting a wrinkle above my eyebrow because I just can’t stop lifting it, and I love that you know.

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

The longer a man’s fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming.

Part of the American dream is to live long and die young. Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live.

Worry – a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.

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.

Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

As I got older, I guess I became more mellow and more forgiving and more loving.

It would be great to be 105 and still making films.

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

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.

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.

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.

The quality, not the longevity, of one’s life is what is important.

To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.

I intend to live forever, or die trying.

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

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

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

I have the problems of, I must confess, old age.

I won’t have to do any major changes to continue my career a long way, hopefully. Just hopefully stay healthy and be able to help a team out as I go through and still play at a pretty high level.

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

When I see myself as an old woman, I just think about being happy. And hopefully, I’ll still be fly.

Medicines are only fit for old people.

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.

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

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

Don’t get old, if you can avoid it.

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.

I am certain no one sets out to be cruel, but our treatment of the elderly ill seems to have no philosophy to it. As a society, we should establish whether we have a policy of life at any cost.

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.

When we build, let us think that we build for ever.