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I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and of personal relations; and suddenly find - at the age of fifty, say - that a whole new life has opened before you, filled with things you can think about, study, or read about...It is as if a fresh sap of ideas and thoughts was rising in you.
- Agatha Christie
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And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
- Abraham Lincoln
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Liberalism seems to be related to the distance people are from the problem.
- Whitney Young
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Among all my patients in the second half of life ... there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life.
- Carl Jung
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There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.
- Edith Wharton
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The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children.
- Clarence Darrow
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No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.
- Florida Scott-Maxwell
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Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.
- Sir Arthur Pinero
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How a minority,
Reaching majority,
Seizing authority,
Hates a minority!
- Leonard H. Robbins
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Live your life and forget your age.
- Norman Vincent Peale
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I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.
- T. S. Eliot
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A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
- Robert Frost
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Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
- Oscar Wilde
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In his later years Pablo Picasso was not allowed to roam an art gallery unattended, for he had previously been discovered in the act of trying to improve on one of his old masterpieces.
- Unknown
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The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.
- Helen Hayes
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Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese.
- Billie Burke
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Every old man complains of the growing depravity of the world, of the petulance and insolence of the rising generation.
- Dr. Johnson
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I see no comfort in outliving one's friends, and remaining a mere monument of the times which are past.
- Thomas Jefferson
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So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why don't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
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The riders in a race do not stop short when they reach the goal. There is a little finishing canter before coming to a standstill. There is time to hear the kind voice of friends and to say to one's self: "The work is done."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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There's no pleasure on earth that's worth sacrificing for the sake of an extra five years in the geriatric ward of the Sunset Old People's Home, Weston-Super-Mare.
- Horace Rumpole
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Being an old maid is like death by drowning -- a really delightful sensation after you have ceased struggling.
- Edna Ferber
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Old age is fifteen years older than I am.
(also attributed to Bernard Baruch in slightly different form)
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
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All would live long, but none would be old.
- Benjamin Franklin
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Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.
- Leon Trotsky
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