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

Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself-a lad of about 19

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.

The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty

You think it horrible that lust and rageShould dance attendance upon my old age;They were not such a plague when I was young;What else have I to spur me into song?