B. F. Skinner Quotes

Old age: The estuary that enlarges and spreads itself grandly as it pours into the Great Sea.

Old age, after all, is merely the punishment for having lived.

Old age is a strange country, and most of us enter it unwillingly.

it sucks to get old...but there's always beer

Growing old beats the alternative - dying young.

Old age is - a lot of crossed off names in an address book.

Yet there's something ominous about turning sixty-five. Suddenly old age is not a phenomenon which will occur; it has occurred.

Few people know how to be old.

For me, old age is just something that happens.

Old age is life's parody.

Getting old we can deal with. Being old is the problem

The trouble is, old age is not interesting until one gets there. It's a foreign country with an unknown language to the young and even to the middle-aged.

Life after 50 or 60 is itself another country, as different as adolescence is from childhood, or as adulthood is from adolescence - and just as adventurous.

When people become elders - when they're older; they can be old without being an elder, really. They [can] just be old and not very useful.

I'm surrounded by the scene of aging. I myself am in my 70s and not getting any younger. Although I'm very healthy, and I have a lot of energy, and I still feel 50, I'm over 70 and I understand that I am preparing for later.

I'm comfortable moving into the role of elder person.

The old are in a second childhood.

The ordinariness of living to be old is too novel a thing to appreciate.

Everything about aging in my experience so far has been a plus. Except the death part!

Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.

Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife; This simple boon I beg of Fate - A thousand years of Middle Life.

Certainly, old age is often incompatible with certain roles and responsibilities.

Florida was a living tomb, she used to tell anyone who'd listen, an old-age home in the shape of a state, God's little waiting room, as she was fond of quoting.

I like old people when they have aged well.

I'm sixty-five and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics, but if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be forty-eight.