Age and Aging The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish. The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.YOU MAY ALSO LIKE ยปAdvice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey’s end.Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.There is no one so old as to not think they may live a day longer.No one is so old as to think he cannot live one more year.