Age is no better, hardly so well, qualified for an instructor as youth, for it has not profited so much as it has lost.

I don’t know what the old you was like, but the new you, the older you than the old you, is new and fresh.


How many birthdays can you fit in a shoebox? I guess that depends both on how old you are, and what size shoe you wear.

Material wealth do not last forever, but that which probably lasts forever is the wealth of intelligence and creativity.

I’m not the same person I was when I wasn’t. I’m different now, in that now I’m drinking coffee.

It s one of nature s way that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us

If all the centenarians formed their own country, they’d be both the youngest country in the world, and the oldest.

In choosing a hypothesis there is no virtue in being timid. I clearly would have been burned at the stake in another age.

People forget that old women were young once, but d'you think we old women forget? In my heart, I'm still thirty.

Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty.

You are old and grey,” she teased.“And you’re never too immortal for a spanking,” he shot back...

33 old people went into a nursing home, and only 34 people came out alive. One old woman died while giving birth to twins.

Those of us who are blamed when old for reading childish books were blamed when children for reading books too old for us.

It happened to some people, that obsession with throwing their clothes off at an age when it would be best to keep them on.

I have a friend who likes to date younger women because their stories are shorter. Old men like us, our stories are longer.