Ageing

Saint Edmund of Abingdon - Learn as if you will live forever; live as though you would die tomorrow. Latin original: Disce quasi semper victurus; vive quasi cras moriturus.

Douglas Adams (in The Salmon of Doubt, 2002) - Anything that is in the world when you're born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. Anything that's invented between when you're fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.

François de La Rochefoucauld - Les vieillards aiment à donner de bons préceptes, pour se consoler de n'être plus en état de donner de mauvais exemples. English: Old men delight in giving good advice as a consolation for the fact that they can no longer set bad examples.

Will Rogers - When I die, I want to die like my grandfather who died peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like all the passengers in his car.