Old Age Quotes

My Bubbie lived to 104, which is probably a little too old to consider a ripe old age, because she had already started to turn. I still say she died young.

Old age is a flight of small cheeping birds skimming bare trees above a snow glaze.

I know of nothing more laughable than a doctor who does not die of old age.

Who does not wish to be beautiful, and clever, and rich, and to have back, in old age, the time spent trying to be any of them.

Gather, gather your youth: Just like this flower, old age Your beauty will wither.

Artists of all sorts remain youthful for so long, and in many cases attain a grand old age. The explanation is that they live in an almost permanent condition of stimulation and excitement.

Old age is - a lot of crossed off names in an address book.

The Autumn is old; The sere leaves are flying; He hath gather'd up gold, And now he is dying;- Old age, begin sighing!

Old age is never honored among us, but only indulged, as childhood is; and old men lose one of the most precious rights of man,--that of being judged by their peers.

How young can you die of old age?

Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age.

A man doesn't grow old because he has lived a certain number of years. A man grows old when he deserts his ideal. The years may wrinkle his skin, but deserting his ideal wrinkles his soul.

Old age is the verdict of life.

Old age is the repose of life; the rest that precedes the rest that remains.

Learning maketh young men temperate, is the comfort of old age, standing for wealth with poverty, and serving as an ornament to riches.

It must become a right of every person to die of old age. And if we secure this right for ourselves, we can, coincidentally, assure it for the planet.

It is the common vice of all, in old age, to be too intent upon our interests.

Rashness attends youth, as prudence does old age.

Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.

I am much beholden to old age, which has increased my eagerness for conversation in proportion as it has lessened my appetites of hunger and thirst.

Too chaste an adolescence makes for a dissolute old age. It is doubtless easier to give up something one has known than something one imagines.

You will recognize, my boy, the first sign of old age: it is when you go out into the streets of London and realize for the first time how young the policemen look.

Nothing is inherently and invincibly young except spirit. And spirit can enter a human being perhaps better in the quiet of old age and dwell there more undisturbed than in the turmoil of adventure.

Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.

...there is no old age of the soul.

Never have I enjoyed youth so thoroughly as I have in my old age

To be old is to be part of a huge and ordinary multitude... the reason why old age was venerated in the past was because it was extraordinary.

Education is the food of youth, the delight of old age, the ornament of prosperity, the refuge and comfort of adversity, and the provocation to grace in the soul.

While strength and years permit, endure labor; soon bent old age will come with silent foot. [Lat., Dum vires annique sinunt, tolerate labores. Jam veniet tacito curva senecta pede.]

Old age is a disease from which there is no recovery but the old nun's recent attack had certainly been brought on chiefly by the fatigue of so much travelling.

It all would have been much better if individuals saved for their own old age.

... no problem except old age ever vanquished my mother.

Every period of life has its peculiar prejudices; whoever saw old age, that did not applaud the past, and condemn the present times?

Maybe I'll be a feminist in my old age.

Great is Youth--equally great is Old Age--great are Day and Night. Great is Wealth--great is Poverty--great is Expression-great is Silence.

Those who are born of parents broken with old age, or of such as are not yet ripe or are too young, or of drunkards, soft or effeminate men, want a great and liberal ingenuity or wit.

Not one of them who took up in his youth with this opinion that there are no gods ever continued until old age faithful to his conviction.

Cato requested old men not to add the disgrace of wickedness to old age, which was accompanied with many other evils.

To love is a pleasure of youth, a sin in old age.

One should never make one's entrance with a scandal. One should reserve that to give an interest to one's old age.

Short is the life of those who possess great accomplishments, and seldom do they reach a good old age. Whatever thou lovest, pray that thou mayest not set too high a value on it.

Youth is when you think you'll live forever. Old age is when you wonder how you've lived so long.

I think repeating yourself is a sign of old age, telling the same joke again and again. Especially if they're jokes that don't make people laugh

Old age transfigures or fossilizes.

Thus Carol hit upon the tragedy of old age, which is not that it is less vigorous than youth, but that it is not needed by youth.

Old age is somewhat like dieting. Every day there is less of us to be observed.

This was when I heard that the first symptom of old age is when you begin to resemble your father.

Religion often gets credit for curing rascals when old age is the real medicine.

There is no happiness where there is no wisdom; No wisdom but in submission to the gods. Big words are always punished, And proud men in old age learn to be wise.