Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that happen to a man. -Leon Trotsky.

Old age deprives the intelligent man only of qualities useless to wisdom

The memories of a man in his old age are the deeds of a man in his prime.

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

A man who encounters the following three is unfortunate; the death of his wife in his old age, the entrusting of money into the hands of relatives, and depending upon others for food.