I find that a man is as old as his work. If his work keeps him from moving forward, he will look forward with the work.

- William Ernest Hocking

The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.

- Bob Wells

Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice it whitens only the hair.

- Ira Gershwin

The whole business of marshaling one's energies becomes more and more important as one grows older.

- Hume Cronyn

The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more.

- Colleen McCullough

When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

- Muriel Spark

The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.

- Doris Day

There is an anti-aging possibility, but it has to come from within.

- Susan Anton

Those who love deeply never grow old they may die of old age, but they die young.

- Dorothy Canfield Fisher

I get all fired up about aging in America.

- Willard Scott

There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

- Fay Weldon

He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled.

- Gene Fowler

Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.

- Sinclair Lewis

In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived.

- Knut Hamsun

The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.

- Max Lerner

I'm not afraid of aging.

- Shelley Duvall

The answer to old age is to keep one's mind busy and to go on with one's life as if it were interminable. I always admired Chekhov for building a new house when he was dying of tuberculosis.

- Leon Edel

We've put more effort into helping folks reach old age than into helping them enjoy it.

- Frank A. Clark

In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.

- Beverly Sills

We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

- J. B. Priestley

No man is ever old enough to know better.

- Holbrook Jackson

The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood.

- Logan P. Smith