It seems it’s not just about what we eat but how and when we eat it. ibid.
Only now are scientists really beginning to understand the link between calorie restriction and longevity in humans. ibid.
Hunger really does make you sharper. ibid.
That doesn’t mean intermittent fasting will work for everyone. ibid.
I plan to go on doing it. ibid.
In 2013 a Russian internet millionaire funded a conference in New York with an extraordinary aim – to see if a system could be created that would allow him to live for ever. Horizon: The Immortalist, BBC 2016
Is it so crazy to think we could live for ever in machines? ibid.
And ’tis not hard, I think,
For men so old as we to keep the peace. William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet I ii 2-3, Capulet to Paris
But old folks, many feign as they were dead –
Unwieldy, slow, heavy, and pale as lead. ibid. II iv 16-17, Juliet
Alas, my liege, my wife is dead tonight ... What further woe conspires against mine age? ibid. V iii 209-211, Montague
My skin hangs about me like an old lady’s loose gown. I am withered like an old applejohn. Henry IV I 2012 starring Roger Allam & Oliver Cotton & Jamie Parker & Joseph Timms & Sam Crane & Jason Baughan & Patrick Brennan & William Gaunt & Christopher Godwin & Daon Broni et al, director Dominic Dromgoole, Globe Theatre Sky Arts, Falstaff
I’m only old in judgment and understanding. The Hollow Crown: Henry IV part II 2012 ***** BBC starring Jeremy Irons & Simon Russell Beale & Tom Hiddleston & Alun Armstrong & David Bamber & Julie Walters & Niamh Cusack & David Dawson & Michaelle Dockery et al, director Richard Eyre, Falstaff to Lord Chief Justice
I am old. I am old. ibid. Falstaff to Doll Tearsheet
She cannot choose but be old. ibid. Shallow with Falstaff et al
A good old man, sir; he will be talking: as they say, ‘when the age is in, the wit is out.’ William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing III v 36
Unregarded age in corners thrown. William Shakespeare, As You Like It II iii 42
Therefore my age is as a lusty winter,
Frosty, but kindly. ibid. II iii 52
O good old man! how well in thee appears
The constant service of the antique world,
When service sweat for duty, not for meed!
You art not for the fashion of these times,
Where none will sweat but for promotion. ibid. II iii 56
The sixth age shifts
Into the lean and slippered pantaloon,
With spectacles on nose and pouch on side,
His youthful hose well saved a world too wide
For his shrunk shank. ibid. II xii 157
Last scene of all,
That ends this strange eventful history,
Is second childishness, and mere oblivion,
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything. ibid. II vii 163
For the satirical rogue says here that old men have grey beards; that their faces are wrinkled; their eyes purging thick amber and plum-tree gum; and that they have a plentiful lack of wit, together with most weak hams. William Shakespeare, Hamlet II ii 197-200, Hamlet to Polonius
You cannot call it love, for at your age
The hey-day in the blood is tame, it’s humble,
And waits upon the judgment. ibid. III iv 68
I am declined
Into the vale of years. William Shakespeare, Othello III iii 265
Thou should’st not have been old before thou hadst been wise. William Shakespeare, The History of King Lear I v 43
I am too old to learn. ibid. II ii 122, Kent
I confess that I am old.
Age is unnecessary. ibid. II ii 312-313, Lear
If you do love old men, if your sweet sway
Allow obedience, if yourselves are old,
Make it your cause! ibid. II ii 348, Lear
Why, nature needs not what thou, gorgeous, wearest,
Which scarcely keeps thee warm. But for true need –
You heavens, give me that patience patience I need.
You see me here, you gods, a poor old fellow,
As full of grief as age, wretched in both. ibid. II ii @428, Lear
O, sir! You are old;
Nature in you stands on the very verge
Of her confine. ibid. II iv 148
Here I stand your slave,
A poor, infirm, weak and despised old man. ibid. III ii 19-20, Lear
You must bear with me.
Pray now, forget and forgive. I am old
And foolish. ibid. IV v 82-84, Lear
The weight of this sad time we must obey,
Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say.
The oldest have borne most. We that are young
Shall never see so much, nor live so long. ibid. V iii @318, Albany, closing lines
These old fellows
Have their ingratitude in them hereditary.
Their blood is caked, ’tis cold, it seldom flows. William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens II ii 210-212, Timon
I have lived long enough: my way of life
Is fall’n into the sear, the yellow leaf;
And that which should accompany old age,
As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends,
I must not look to have; but, in their stead,
Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour, breath,
Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not. William Shakespeare, Macbeth V iii 22
An old man, broken with the storms of state
Is come to lay his weary bones among ye;
Give him a little earth for charity. William Shakespeare, Henry VIII IV ii 21
The aim of all is but to nurse the life
With honour, wealth, and ease in waning age,
And in this aim there is such thwarting strife
That one for all, or all for one, we gage. William Shakespeare, The Rape of Lucrece, 141-144
The aged man that coffers up his gold
Is plagued with cramps, and gouts, and painful fits,
And scarce hath eyes his treasure to behold,
But like still-pining Tantalus he sits,
And useless barns the harvest of his wits,
Having no other pleasure of his gain
But torment that it cannot cure his pain. William Shakespeare, The Rape of Lucrece, 855-861
Meet Britain’s age-gap lovers. Six remarkable couples with age differences ranging from twenty-eight years to more than four decades. She’s 78, He’s 39: Age Gap Love, Channel 5 2015
Is it selfish becoming a new dad when you're in your seventies? ibid.
I’m having a good time. I’m going to show the whole world that the age of forty, even fifty, is not a death sentence. George Foreman
Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man. Leon Trotsky, Diary in Exile, 1959
A life of peace, purity and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled age. Cicero
So here it is at last, the distinguished thing! Henry James, after his first stroke
It is something cruelly incomprehensible to youthful natures, this sombre sadness in middle-aged and elderly people, whose life has resulted in disappointment and discontent, to whose faces a smile becomes so strange that the sad lines all about the lips and brow seem to take no notice of it, and it hurries away again for want of a welcome. George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss p243, Maggie contemplates
Rottweilers on speed. Tony Blair
The fountain of youth – how much of it is bullshit? Penn & Teller, Bullshit! s2e8: The Fountain of Youth, Showtime 2004
Everyone we interviewed didn’t want to look over the age of forty. ibid.