Old age is not a total misery. Experience helps.

Old men's prayers for death are lying prayers, in which they abuse old age and long extent of life. But when death draws near, not one is willing to die, and age no longer is a burden to them.

The power of love itself weakens and gradually becomes lost with age, like all the other energies of man.

An old goat is never the more reverend for his beard.

Let others hail the rising sun: I bow to that whose course is run.

It is not becoming to lay to virtue the weariness of old age.

People always fancy that we must become old to become wise; but, in truth, as years advance, it is hard to keep ourselves as wise as we were.

Old age is wasted on the elderly: the young know what to do with it-insist on something different.

I love everything that's old: old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines.

Time goes by: reputation increases, ability declines.