Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.
Old Quotes
You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.
Yet somehow our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members.
Age appears to be best in four things, – old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
By the time you are 80, you’ve learned everything. You only have to remember it.
To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
People ask me what I’d most appreciate getting for my 87 birthday. I tell them a paternity suit.
I’m not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
I was always taught to respect my elders and I’ve now reached the age when I don’t have anybody to respect.
Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what the hell happened.
