Never let an old person live in your body.
Who wants to be a hundred? What's the point of it? A short life and a merry one is far better than a long one sustained by fear, caution, and perpetual medical surveillance.
A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.
To make good use of life, one should have in youth the experience of advanced years, and in old age the vigor of youth.
Longevity in my family's been pretty good. And my grandparents were pretty spry at their age, so I figured I'd probably stay skinny and fairly agile. I used to do old men all the time in sketches. And there used to be an organization called the Gray Panthers. And they would send me, oh, terrible letters about making fun of old people. And I would just always say, "I'm playing the old person I intend to become!"
...it is so silly of people to fancy that old age means crookedness and witheredness and feebleness and sticks and spectacles and rheumatism and forgetfulness! It is so silly! Old age has nothing whatever to do with all that. The right old age means strength and beauty and mirth and courage and clear eyes and strong painless limbs.
It is perhaps life's greatest accomplishment to live to old age, maintaining one's wits, one's sense of humor, one's health, and one's charm.
My dad was running up and down stairs at 85; my granddad lived until 96, and married a much younger woman at 86.
You don't grow old. You get old by not growing.
I like old people when they have aged well.
As long as my body holds out, I'll be grooving when I'm 70, and not some sort of horrible spectacle.
"You are old, Father William," the young man cried, "The few locks which are left you are gray; You are hale, Father William, a hearty old man,- Now tell me the reason I pray."
Do not go gentle into the good night. Old age should burn and rage at close of day.
From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.
With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. And let my liver rather heat with wine, than my heart cool with mortifying groans.
