Old Age Quotes

There is only one solution if old age is not to be an absurd parody of our former life, and that is to go on pursuing ends that give our existence a meaning.

Old age is life's parody.

Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.

If old age means a crown of thorns, the trick is to wear it jauntily.

No man loves life like him that's growing old.

A sensual and intemperate youth hands over a worn-out body to old age. [Lat., Libidinosa etenim et intemperans adolescentiam effoetum corpus tradit senectuti.]

A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice; a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself.

We can't reach old age by another man's road.

There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.

Exercise and temperance can preserve something of our early strength even in old age.

Greatness is the dream of youth realized in old age.

When I came to power, I did not want the concentration camps to become old age pensioners homes, but instruments of terror.

When intelligent and sensible people despise knowledge in their old age, it is only because they have asked too much of it and of themselves.

May you keep dreaming until the day you die. May imagination overtake memory. May you die young at a ripe old age.

Old age appears hideous to us until we have to choose between it and death.

Let us fight for a new world, a decent world that will give men a chance to work, that will give youth a future and old age a security.

Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.

Even to your old age and gray hairs I am he, I am he who will sustain you. I have made you and I will carry you; I will sustain you and I will rescue you.

Those who, like the beasts, have no such Hope, pass their old age shrouded with an inward gloom.

Old age is rather like another country. You will enjoy it more if you have prepared yourself before you go.

People don't die of old age, they die of neglect.

The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.

My teacher said once that every man faces seven enemies in his lifetime. Sickness, hunger, betrayal, envy, greed, old age, and then death.

We have a great regard for old age when it is bottled.

If you grow up in the suburbs, you hear of people dying of old age, car wrecks, cancer. In the city, it's always people dying of violence or stray bullets.

Put cotton in your ears and pebbles in your shoes. Pull on rubber gloves. Smear Vaseline over your glasses, and there you have it: instant old age.

The biggest surprise in a man's life is old age.

My life, I realize suddenly, is July. Childhood is June, and old age is August, but here it is, July, and my life, this year, is July inside of July.

When considering marriage one should ask oneself this question; 'will I be able to talk with this person into old age?' Everything else is transitory, the most time is spent in conversation.

I would like to live to a ripe old age and raise watermelons in Wyoming.

Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age.

Old age may have its limitations and challenges, but in spite of them, our latter years can be some of the most rewarding and fulfilling of our lives.

Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you'd never complete your life, would you? You'd never wholly know you.

Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.

Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.

Ripe old age, cheerful, useful, and understanding, is one of the finest influences in the world.

It was a meditation on life, love, old age, death: ideas that had often fluttered around her head like nocturnal birds but dissolved into a trickle of feathers when she tried to catch hold of them.

The silver-leaved birch retains in its old age a soft bark; there are some such men.

Old age spiritualizes people naturally

A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.

All diseases run into one, old age.

We've put more effort into helping folks reach old age than into helping them enjoy it.

One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.

Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

Old age is a shipwreck.

A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.

It is a characteristic of old age to find the progress of time accelerated. The less one accomplishes in a given time, the shorter does the retrospect appear.