Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings read more

Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.

Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.

Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.

The problem with beauty is that it's like being born rich and getting poorer.

The problem with beauty is that it's like being born rich and getting poorer.

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

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

The crucial task of old age is balance: keeping just well enough, just brave enough, just gay and interested and read more

The crucial task of old age is balance: keeping just well enough, just brave enough, just gay and interested and starkly honest enough to remain a sentient human being.

Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it read more

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

Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself. -Tom Wilson.

Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself. -Tom Wilson.

That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart

That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.