“He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled.”
Attributed without citation in Judy Valon (2009) In Your 60s.
Ehre das Alter!
Über den Umgang mit Menschen (1788)
Ehre das Alter!
Zweites Buch, 1. Kapitel, Verschiedenheit des Alters. hg. von Karl Goedeke. 16. Ausgabe. Hannover: Hahn, 1878. Seite 121 http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Image%3A%C3%9Cber_den_Umgang_mit_Menschen.djvu&page=137
Über den Umgang mit Menschen
“He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled.”
Attributed without citation in Judy Valon (2009) In Your 60s.
“You aren’t old enough to have such regrets.”
“Pain doesn’t respect age, my lady.”
Source: Styxx
No. 97
Apophthegms (1624)
Walt Whitman, "Song of the Open Road" http://www.bartleby.com/142/82., 12, Leaves of Grass (1855)
Misattributed
“Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.”
3.
Meditations Divine and Moral (1664)