Old Age Quotes

Old age is wasted on the elderly: the young know what to do with it-insist on something different.

Rich women need not fear old age; their gold can always create about them any feelings necessary to their happiness.

When I was a kid I respected authority, then as a teenager I gave none; in middle age I expected it; now in old age I live by the word.

Fancy and humour, early and constantly indulged in, may expect an old age overrun with follies.

We hope to grow old and we dread old age; that is to say, we love life and we flee from death.

Too great carelessness, equally with excess in dress, multiplies the wrinkles of old age, and makes its decay still more conspicuous.

We dread old age, which are not sure of being able to attain. [Fr., L'on craint la vieillesse, que l'on n'est pas sur de pouvoir atteindre.]

old age' is always ten years more than we are.

To become aware in time when young of the advantages of age; to maintain the advantages of youth in old age: both are pure fortune.

Some one has said of a fine and honorable old age, that it was the childhood of immortality.

But with what incessant and grievous ills is old age surrounded!

[On Malcolm Muggeridge:] He thinks he was knocked off his horse by God, like St. Paul on the road to Damascus. His critics think he simply fell off it from old age.

One of the small consolations of old age, if you are lucky, can be at least a partial recovery of innocence.

In the days of thy youth seek to obtain that which shall compensate the losses of thy old age.

All I can say, in answer to this kind queries [of friends] is that I have not the distemper called the Plague; but that I have allthe plagues of old age, and of a shattered carcase.

Singularity is only pardonable in old age and retirement; I may now be as singular as I please, but you may not.

Every citizen will be able, in his productive years when he is earning, to insure himself against the ravages of illness in his old age.

old age is more bearable if it can be helped by an early acceptance of being loved and of loving.

I've been very lucky and I have a happy old age with good family and friends still around.

He that dies in extreme old age will be reduced to the same state with him that is cut down untimely.

Turn thy thoughts now to the consideration of thy life, thy life as a child, as a youth, thy manhood, thy old age, for in these also every change was a death. Is this anything to fear?

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.

Old age by nature is rather talkative.

Rashness is the companion of youth, prudence of old age.

Slowly and imperceptibly old age comes creeping on.

So you see, old age is really not so bad. May you come to know the condition!

An intemperate, disorderly youth will bring to old age, a feeble and worn-out body.

I know not any season of life that is past more agreeably than virtuous old age.

That folly of old age which is called dotage is peculiar to silly old men, not to age itself.

Little by little old age renders the body less powerful.

It is our duty, my young friends, to resist old age.

A dissolute and intemperate youth hands down the body to old age in a worn-out state.

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

Old age likes indecency. It's a sign of life.

Old age learns about less after a lifetime of more.

I thought that if I were going into old age I would want to do what [Giuseppe] Verdi did, which is to write extraordinary things, and to really find myself.

I do not believe in old age. I do not believe in getting tired.

I suppose real old age begins when one looks backward rather than forward

Old age is not an illness, it is a timeless ascent. As power diminishes, we grow toward the light.

For inside all the weakness of old age, the spirit, God knows, is as mercurial as it ever was.

Old age is a humble victory in this killing universe.

In old age, mirror is not a friend!

I think it would be great for the Academy to recognize old age.

I'm too young to be this old.

You can live in the same city your entire life and still be completely a foreigner when you step out, in your old age, onto the street.

How strange it is that life must be nearly over, before one fully learns to live!

Old age is women's hell.

I can say now is that sneaking up on people is a major delight in my old age, but it always has been. A desire, even a need, to shock.

In my old age, I was at last being permitted to make the discovery that lovemaking gets better and better with time, if it's with someone you care for.

In my old age, my mind gets more open, and I listen to so many different types of music and I guess that all reflects in my work.