Age makes you more aware of other people's lives. You see more from the inside - William Maxwell http://j.mp/Zlr8Xq
A middle-aged man whose inconclusive reveries about the meaning of life have been interrupted by the unpleasant realisation that he has not saved enough for his retirement - and may have to start eating cat-food on a more regular basis - Gideon Rachman http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/4d277112-7d68-11df-a0f5-00144feabdc0.html
You can't turn back the clock, but you can wind it up again - Bonnie Prudden
You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing - Marie Stopes
The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes - Frank Lloyd Wright
Retirement is all you make it to be. I?ve heard of people who?ve retired, and they don?t know what to do with themselves, and they?ve bloody died in a couple of years - http://www.oxfordmuse.com/selfportrait/portrait94.html
Real adulthood is the result of two qualities: self-discipline and self-reliance. The process of developing them together in balance is called maturing - J.W. Jepson
Older people are perceived as cynics and misanthropes -- but no, they are simply people who have at last heard the still, sad music of humanity played by an inferior rock band howling for fame - Paul Theroux, Ghost Train To The Eastern Star
Old age smells of shit and shame, not Chanel. Do not go there. Find another route into the hereafter - Judith O'Reilly, http://www.wifeinthenorth.com/
Old age is like everything else, to make a success of it you got to start young - Fred Astaire