Old Age Quotes
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.
Learning maketh young men temperate, is the comfort of old age, standing for wealth with poverty, and serving as an ornament to riches.
Let us be men with men, and always children before God; for in His eyes we are but children. Old age itself, in presence of eternity, is but the first moment of a morning.
You pray for good health and a body that will be strong in old age. Good-but your rich foods block the gods' answer and tie Jupiter's hands.
I am getting old and the sign of old age is that I begin to philosophize and ponder over problems which should not be my concern at all.
I didn't fear old age. I was just becoming increasingly aware of the fact that the only people who said old age was beautiful were usually twenty-three years old.
As all things eternal and primordial reappear, so all things mortal return to the earth. Honor, old age, probity, justice, constance, virtue, and gentleness are all gathered into the cold tomb.
After a stronghold has been made of the bones, it is covered with flesh and blood, and there dwell in it old age and death, pride and deceit.
Animals are born and bred in litters. Solitude grows blessed and peaceful only in old age.
Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.
Why should we stunt our ambitions and impoverish our lives in order to be insulted and looked down upon in our old age?
Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.
Old age takes from the man of intellect no qualities save those that are useless to wisdom.
There comes with old age a time when the heart is no longer fusible or malleable, and must retain the form in which it has cooled down.
He who cares only for himself in youth will be a very niggard in manhood, and a wretched miser in old age.
When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.
Discouragement is of all ages: In youth it is a presentiment, in old age a remembrance.
That's what happens when people reach old age; nobody remembers they've been bastards too.
People don't die of old age, they die of diseases that accompany old age, and they are preventable.
Nevertheless, whether in occurrences lasting days, hours or mere minutes at a time, I have experienced happiness often, and have had brief encounters with it in my later years, even in old age.
I think my real fear is that I will get to old age and think I spent too much time concerned about the way that I look and other bullshit. That's really a fear of mine.
I do need to loosen up a bit, and that usually does come with old age. That's the intention.
For the complete life, the perfect pattern includes old age as well as youth and maturity.
Oh! if to dance all night, and dress all day, Charm'd the small-pox, or chas'd old age away; . . . . To patch, nay ogle, might become a saint, Nor could it sure be such a sin to paint.
Youth wrenches the sceptre from old age, and sets the crown on its own head before it is entitled to it.
You do not play then at whist, sir? Alas, what a sad old age you are preparing for yourself!
He knew what the wind was doing to them, where it was taking them, to all the secret places that were never so secret again in life.
And then we ease him out of that worn-out body with a kiss, and he's gone like a whisper, the easiest breath.
I am involved in a lot of nonprofits. And when I reached the ripe old age of 60, I wanted to provide leadership to some I had been involved in.
The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.
Growing old is not a gradual decline, but a series of drops, full of sorrow, from one ledge to another below it.
I'm learning in my old age that the only thing you can do to keep your sanity is to stay in the moment.
