silver generation Quotes

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

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

Old age is the night of life, as night is the old age of the day. Still, night is full of magnificence; and, for many, it is more brilliant than the day.

old folks is the nation.

I don't think of myself as old. Obviously I am - I have a free bus pass, I'm going to be a grandad in two months time, and my hip is giving me jip, so it's all telling me something I don't really want to hear.

On Being Old. It's not nice but take comfort that you won't stay that way for ever.

Aging is a chance to make what was good, great, and what was never so good, better...

One of the interesting things I discovered, talking about your grandmother, is I did a search of my uses of the word "elderly" in my copy over the years, and you will not be surprised to hear that the older I got the less often I used the word elderly in print.