Old Age Quotes

Daughters are supposed to be friends to their mothers in their old age.

Those who love not their fellow-beings live unfruitful lives, and prepare for their old age a miserable grave.

I cannot, in my old age, live off pieces of my youth.

He should be envied Who when his strength is spent lays down his life. Old age reserves a melancholy fate For noble souls before their life is done.

Most people do not understand until old age what Plato tells them when they are young.

Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.

The gods bestowed on Max [Beerbohm] the gift of perpetual old age.

That fair face will as years roll on lose its beauty, and old age will bring its wrinkles to the brow.

Old age brings along with its uglinesses the comfort that you will soon be out of it, - which ought to be a substantial relief to such discontented pendulums as we are.

If I do not do sensible things about investments I shall spend my old age in a workhouse, where nobody will understand my jokes.

I find in old age that it's possible to revisit the past, the one requirement being that you come as you are.

I am grown peaceful as old age tonight.

At any given time, if you live long enough, old age catches you . . . the only choices we have in life are either the impairment of old age or early death.

It is man's own fault, it is from want of use, if his mind grows torpid in old age.

Let us cherish and love old age; for it is full of pleasure, if you know how to use it. The best morsel is reserved for last.

Before old age I took care to live well; in old age I take care to die well; but to die well is to die willingly.

No one's so old that he mayn't with decency hope for one more day.

I've gotten crankier in my old age.

Sign of old age: distress at all leave-takings, all separations. And the sadness of memories, because I'm aware they're condemned to death.

Old age is better for women than for men. First of all, they have less far to fall, since their lives are more mediocre than those of most men.

Old age is not one of the beauties of creation, but it is one of its harmonies.

Old age is the night of life, as night is the old age of the day. Still, night is full of magnificence; and, for many, it is more brilliant than the day.

There is no such thing as the old age of the wise.

Old age is a strange country, and most of us enter it unwillingly.

Other people salted away money for their old age, but Nanny preferred to accumulate memories.

old folks is the nation.

Whatever happens, whether you get rich or stay poor, ruin your health or live to old age, you always end up back where you started: hungry for the one thing everybody loses - young loving.

In my old age there is a coming into flower. My body wanes; my mind waxes.

all the small squalors of the body, known only to oneself, insignificant in youth, easily dismissed, in old age became dominant and entered into fulfilment of the tyranny they had always threatened.

So here I sit in the early candle-light of old age-I and my book-casting backward glances over out travel'd road.

I am a citizen of the world, and I have met, in my time, with so many different sorts of virtue, that I am puzzled, in my old age, to say which is the right sort and which is the wrong.

The youth is better than the old age of friendship.

A happy youth, and their old age Is beautiful and free.

Was it the forgetfulness of old age or personal incapacity that made the man able to say please but not thank you?

For two years I watched my parents' lives wind to a close. This made me aware of old age as a one stage, the final one, of a long journey.

The older I get, the more fun it is to write young people. It's just a holiday from what is becoming old age, really.

It is, indeed, only in old age that intellectual men attain their sublime expression, whilst portraits of them in their youth show only the first traces of it.

The Chinese are a knowing people; and I daresay that is why they once made a religious odor about old age; to prevent their sons from seeing their own future.

One trouble with growing old is that it gets progressively tougher to find a famous historical figure, who didn't amount to much when he was your age.

Old age is the supreme evil, for it deprives man of all pleasures while allowing his appetites to remain, and it brings with it every possible sorrow. Yet men fear death and desire old age.

Zeus it seems has given us from youth to old age a nice ball of wool to wind-nothing but wars upon wars until we shall perish every one.

Alas, Postumus, the fleeting years slip by, nor will piety give any stay to wrinkles and pressing old age and untamable death.

Either a peaceful old age awaits me, or death flies round me with black wings. [Lat., Seu me tranquilla senectus Exspectat, seu mors atris circumvolat alis.]

The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies fast away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and women, old age is upon us.

Growing old becomes clear to you at a certain point. I think it's after the age of 70 you realize - you begin to actually be convinced - you're growing older.

Just as old age is creeping on space, And clouds come o'er the sunset of our day, They kindly leave us, though not quite alone, But in good company--the gout or stone.

The counsels of old age give light without heat, like the sun in winter.

Avarice, with all its black attendants, is confessedly a crime of old age, and seldom arrives at maturity till accompanied with gray hairs.

Old age: I fall asleep during the funerals of my friends.

Faith, courage, optimism, looking forward, bring us new life and more life. Futility, frustration, living in the past are not only characteristic of 'old age'; they contribute to it.