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The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.

» Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) Dutch painter

What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

» W. H. Auden (1907-1973) English-born poet and man of letters

An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick

» William Blake (1757-1827) British poet and painter

How can the moribund old man reason back to himself the romance, the mystery, the imminence of great things with which our old earth tingled for him in the days when he was young and well?

» William Hazlitt (1778-1830) British essayist and literary critic

Youth is full of sport, age's breath is short; youth is nimble, age is lame; Youth is hot and bold, age is weak and cold; Youth is wild, and age is tame.

» William Penn (1644-1718) British religious leader

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. [Merchant Of Venice]

» William Penn (1644-1718) British religious leader

Every man is the creature of the age in which he lives; very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.

» Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) British novelist and essayist ['To the lighthouse', 'Mrs Dalloway', 'Orlando']

Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

» W. H. Auden (1907-1973) English-born poet and man of letters

The worst old age is that of the mind.

» William Faulkner (1897-1962) American novelist and short-story Writer['As I Lay Dying', 'Absalom, Absalom!' Nobel Prize in Literature in 1949]

Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; for in my youth I never did apply hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; and did not, with unbashful forehead, woo the means of weakness and debility: therefore my age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.

» William Penn (1644-1718) British religious leader

I have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which should accompany old age, as honor, love, obedience, troops of friends I must not look to have.

» William Penn (1644-1718) British religious leader

Have you not a moist eye, a dry hand, a yellow cheek, a white beard, a decreasing leg, an increasing belly? Is not your voice broken, your wind short, your chin double, your wit single, and every part about you blasted with antiquity?

» William Penn (1644-1718) British religious leader

The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.

» W. C. Fields (1880-1946) American comedian and actor

Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.

» Walt Disney (1901-1966) American Cartoonist

To be happy, we must be true to nature, and carry our age along with us.

» William Faulkner (1897-1962) American novelist and short-story Writer['As I Lay Dying', 'Absalom, Absalom!' Nobel Prize in Literature in 1949]

My age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.

» William Penn (1644-1718) British religious leader

Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!

» William Penn (1644-1718) British religious leader

The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.

» William Shakespeare (1564-1616) British poet and playwright

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