Signs of Old Age

• Old age is when you're sitting at home on Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it's not for you. — Ogden Nash
• On growing bald: "What [God] hath scanted men in hair, He hath given them in wit." — William Shakespeare
• Regrets: "If I'd only known, I would have been a locksmith." — Albert Einstein
• To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am. — Bernard Baruch
• The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young. — Oscar Wilde
• When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase. — Bernard Berenson
• Oh, to be seventy again! — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. [at age 92, upon seeing a pretty young woman]
• Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold, you have escaped not from one master but from many. — Plato
• Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man. — Leon Trotsky