The counsels of old age give light without heat, like the sun in winter.

Old age is a woman's hell

What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.

No sociologist should think himself too good, even in his old age, to make tens of thousands of quite trivial computations in his head and perhaps for months at a time.

Old age is, so to speak, the sanctuary of ills: they all take refuge in it.

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