Age Old Quotes

Many a man that couldn't direct ye to th' drug store on th' corner when he was thirty will get a respectful hearin' when age has further impaired his mind.

It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures.

Nature abhors the old.

This week, a 95-year-old woman married a 98-year-old man to become the world's oldest newlyweds. They're registered at Bed, Sponge Bath and Beyond.

My age I will not once lament, / But sing, my time so near is spent.

nothing is so sad as the injustices of old age.

In my old age, I'll be in L.A.

No one should be alone in their old age, he thought.

Slowly and imperceptibly old age comes creeping on.

when you start to bore yourself and others, that's when you begin to get old.

I'm too young to be this old.

old folks is the nation.

I love the inappropriateness of age-old wisdom in modern slang. These things are all so wonderful to me.

The only music I was listening to for ages was old soul. So I wasn't listening to a lot of new music - especially indie music.

It's the age-old thing - it's such a cliche - but why worry about things you have no control over?

I am now of all humors that have showed themselves humors since the old days of goodman Adam to the pupil age of this present twelve o'clock at midnight.

All would live long but none would be old.

It is time to be old To take in sail.

The young feel tired at the end of an action The old at the beginning.

Forty is the old age of youth fifty is the youth of old age.

I never dared be radical when young For fear it would make me conservative when old.

The spiritual eyesight improves as the physical eyesight declines.

When pain ends gain ends too.

I am long on ideas but short on time. I expect to live only about a hundred years.

How beautifully the leaves grow old. How full of light and colour are their last days.

Life has got to be lived - that's all there is to it. At seventy I would say the advantage is that you take life more calmly. You know that 'this too shall pass!'

My opportunities were still there nay they multiplied tenfold but the strength and youth to cope with them began to fail and to need eking out with the shifty cunning of experience.

Golden lads and girls all must As chimney-sweepers come to dust.

The land of easy mathematics where he who works adds up and he who retires subtracts.

Europe, the land of easy mathematics where he who works adds up and he who retires subtracts. The land where the economy gets to stagger all over the continent.

The good thing about being old is not being young.

When we age we shed many skins: ego, arrognace, dominance, self-opionated, unreliable, pessimism, rudeness, selfish, uncaring ... Wow, it's good to be old!

Blessed are the elderly men and women.

Those who have no hope pass their old age shrouded with an inward gloom.

It is a blessed bliss to live to be old.

A person gets built and stands for a few years and then nature’s demolition team comes in.

There is always some chance of recession in any year. But the evidence suggests that expansions don't die of old age.

The public has lost faith in the ability of Social Security and Medicare to provide for old age. They've lost faith in the banking system and in conventional medical insurance.

Not everything in old age is grim. I haven't walked through an airport for years, and wheelchairs are the way to travel.

The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

You are as young as you think.

The glory of age is beauty of gray hair.

Age is glory.

As I have aged, I’ve been lucky never to reach old. Old is always at least five or ten years beyond my current calendar stage.

As long as your life is a succession of love stories, you can never grow old.

You are only old once, but you can be immature forever.

I will age for you, if it pleases you. I will match you, wrinkle for wrinkle, grey hair for grey hair, crease for crease, wrinkle for wrinkle. You will be so beautiful when you are old.

I don't ever want to get old. Spare me that. Have you the power? No, even you don't have the power, alas.

A man's life is all he has. When you're old, it's all you'll ever have.

...an age-old patter that seemed like chaos but was not...