Age and Aging Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week. Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.YOU MAY ALSO LIKE ยปOld age is not a disease — it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.There must be a goal at every stage of life! There must be a goal!Men and women approaching retirement age should be recycled for public service work, and their companies should foot the bill. We can no longer afford to scrap-pile people.The worst indignity is to be given a bedpan by a stranger who calls you by your first name.Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem — in my opinion — to characterize our age.