Some eras worship infancy; some, the aged. None as yet has adored middle age.
With age, I have become both more pious and more shameless.
The children of childish parents age quickly.
Age: I go slower as time goes faster.
Living too long exacts a painful price.
People who behave at forty as they did at twenty must sometimes wonder why their charm is not working.
The noisy vacancy of youth, the quiet vacancy of age.
An old man drinks tea and reads the newspaper--forgetting age for a moment.
After ages of bombast, the rhetoric of virtue has become ironic and shy.
In middle age, going naked contributes little to public enjoyment.
As an elder I mistrust the wisdom of age.
My mentors grow old and foolish. I am afraid.
With age, comfort becomes more seductive than beauty.
With age, the mind grows slower and more wily.
Youth demands more than ordinary life. Age clings to it.
Growth provides novel experiences for youth; decay the same, alas, for age.
After sixty, the self-questioning of middle age is obsolete.
An illicit love affair seems sweetly old-fashioned in the age of one night stands and orgies.
In youth, love and art. In age, investments and antiques.
The young break rules for fun. The old for profit.
Age must give way to youth, no doubt. But not yet, not yet.
Old age likes indecency. It's a sign of life.
Old men feel a slightly reluctant affection for one another.
As a youth, I sought out decadence; as an elder, I try to avoid decay.
Old age learns about less after a lifetime of more.
