Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent.

It is rare for someone who is older to be bolder.

You need to have really wasted your life to envy the young for being young.

Some women look like their mothers’ mothers. Some look like they’re their mothers’ mothers.

Even idiots can reach old age.

Getting older seems to but does not make us even more mortal.

Being younger than someone has the tendency to leave you with the belief that you will outlive them.

Some people’s immaturity is intensified by their stupidity.

With old age comes the risk of demotion to childhood.