Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.

Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining years are among the sweetest in a man’s life, and I maintain that, even when they have reached the extreme limit, they have their pleasure still.

Seneca

Age. That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit.

Ambrose Bierce

Life’s tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.

Benjamin Franklin