Old Age Quotes

That's one of the privileges of old age - you can give plenty of advice 'cause most folks think that's all you got left anyway.

Don't complain about growing old — many, many people do not have that privilege.

Do not go gentle into the good night. Old age should burn and rage at close of day.

I don't know what the big deal is about old age. Old people who shine from the inside look 10 to 20 years younger.

I fear vastly more a futile, incompetent old age than I do any form of death.

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.

The best security for old age: respect your children.

Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending; a negligent youth is usually attended by an ignorant middle age, and both by an empty old age.

Old age is like an opium dream. Nothing seems real except the unreal.

Take care that old age does not wrinkle your spirit even more than your face.

One of the good elements of old age is that we no longer have to prove anything, to ourselves or to anyone else. We are what we are.

Good work and joyous play go hand in hand. When play stops, old age begins. Play keeps you from taking life too seriously.

Fine #‎ wine is a living liquid ... Its life comprises youth, maturity, old age, and death.

There is no place in which to hide when Age comes seeking for his bride.

Old age creeps on us ere we think it nigh.

That's the purpose of old age... To give us a breathing space before we die, in which to see why we did what we did.

Old age is a time of humiliations, the most disagreeable of which, for me, is that I cannot work long at sustained high pressure with no leaks in concentration.

Old age is just a record of one's whole life.

But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave.

I don't know what's happened to me. I've got a bit more sophisticated in my old age. I like a bit of jasmine tea. I love it.

In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.

He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled.

The delights of reading impart the vivacity of youth even to old age.

Years ago, I thought old age would be dreadful, because I should not be able to do things I would want to do. Now I find there is nothing I want to do after all

Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.

I urge young women to look ahead and see if they want to have a lonely old age or do they want to have what I have, which is the joy of 14 beautiful grandchildren.

I think my fans will follow me into our combined old age. Real musicians and real fans stay together for a long, long time.

Old age is a woman's hell.

When you're old, everything you do is sort of a miracle.

Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.

Old age is not for sissies.

Almost all great painters in old age arrive at the same kind of broad, simplified style, as if they wanted to summarise the whole of their experience in a few strokes and blobs of colour.

keep moving. It's hard for old age to hit a moving target.

In my medicine cabinet, the winter fly has died of old age.

Old age, after all, is merely the punishment for having lived.

The best armor of old age is a well-spent life preceding it.

I want to die young at a ripe old age.

Yet there's something ominous about turning sixty-five. Suddenly old age is not a phenomenon which will occur; it has occurred.

What is a great life? It is the dreams of youth realised in old age.

There is no old age. There is, as there always was, just you.

Old age and the passage of time teach all things.

One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up.

When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.

The fear of old age is something that one feels when they're younger. Once you get to being old, you're already there, so you don't even think about it anymore.

Old age is not a time of life. It is a condition of the body. It is not time that ages the body, it is abuse that does.

I have begun in old age to understand...that we seldom if ever realize how generous we are to ourselves, and just how stingy with others.

Old age is the lubricant of belief. When death knocks at the door, skepticism flies out the window. A serious cardiovascular fright and a person will even believe in Little Red Riding Hood.

Whatever poet, orator, or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.

The brain has a quality referred to as plasticity. The ability to form new neural pathways even into very old age. The brain is fluid, flexible and incredibly adaptable to new experiences.