Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.
—Edith Wharton
You're an old-timer if you can remember when setting the world on fire was a figure of speech.
—George Burns
It is better to rust out than wear out.
—Edwin Markham
Age is never so old as youth would measure it.
—Jack London
The first years of man must make provision for the last.
—Samuel Johnson in The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
As I grow older , I regret to say that a detestable habit of thinking seems to be getting a hold of me.
—H. Rider Haggard
Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.
—Phyllis Diller
I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the last one left.
—George Burns
Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.
—Groucho Marx