old age, n.Definitions

Old age is always ten years more than we are.

Old age is always 15 years older than one is.

Old age is a younger person wondering what happened.

Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

Old age is when your kids study in history what you used to study as current events.

Old age is always wakeful... as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.

Old age is the inverse side of the same coin as youth, both of which are right, except perhaps that both are wrong.

Old age is a state of mind existing only among the ordinary people. The more talented and exceptional of us are sometimes old, just as we are sometimes happy, and sometimes sad.