Old Age Quotes

Those who have no hope pass their old age shrouded with an inward gloom.

~ Wilfred Owen

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

~ Gene Fowler

I don't mind being older. I'm proud of my age. I've achieved a lot. It's the same thing with Mick and the Stones. They should be revered and respected. Isn't it strange that now we're living longer we have so much less respect for old age? Perhaps it's a less valuable commodity?

~ Jerry Hall

There has been enough suffering in our country, there has been enough of children whose dreams die before they have a chance to grow and there has been enough of our elders who, having served their nation, are forced into indignity in their old age.

~ John Agyekum Kufuor

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

~ Thomas Carlyle

Old age is not a disease - it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.

~ Maggie Kuhn

The three touchstones that woke Buddha up - sickness, old age, and death - are a pretty good place to start when crafting a tragic tale. And if we need to get more specific: heartbreak, destruction, miscomprehension, natural disasters, betrayal, and the waste of human potential.

~ Paul Di Filippo

The themes that make one laugh always stem from poverty, hunger, misery, old age, sickness, and death. These are the themes that make Italians laugh, anyway.

~ Mario Monicelli

Not even old age knows how to love death.

~ Sophocles

Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age.

~ George Sand

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

Old age and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance.

~ David Mamet

Old age is no place for sissies.

~ Bette Davis

When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

~ Victor Hugo

Education is the best provision for old age.

~ Aristotle

Be eccentric now. Don't wait for old age to wear purple.

~ Regina Brett

Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

~ W. Somerset Maugham

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.

~ Amos Bronson Alcott

There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age.

~ Bill Bryson

Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.

~ Leon Trotsky

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

~ Golda Meir

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

~ Josh Billings

In youth, the days are short and the years are long. In old age, the years are short and days long.

~ Pope Paul Vi

The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.

~ Marcus Tullius Cicero

The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you're learning you're not old.

~ Rosalyn S. Yalow

Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.

~ Aristotle

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

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

~ Anne Bradstreet

To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.

~ Bernard Baruch

Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

~ Emily Dickinson

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

~ Fay Weldon

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

~ Malcolm Muggeridge

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

~ Sinclair Lewis

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age.

~ Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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

~ Frank A. Clark

No sociologist should think himself too good, even in his old age, to make tens of thousands of quite trivial computations in his head and perhaps for months at a time.

~ Max Weber

Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself - a lad of about 19.

~ E. B. White

After 3 years, I left the army at the ripe old age of 20, but I'd like to think some of the skills are still with me. I'm great at physical movement; I can still remember Morse code, and perhaps most importantly, I can fold my socks up into little balls with smiley faces.

~ Rhys Darby

Eighteenth-century doctors prescribed sugar pills for nearly everything: heart problems, headache, consumption, labor pains, insanity, old age, and blindness. Hence, the French expression 'like an apothecary without sugar' meant someone in an utterly hopeless situation.

~ Tom Reiss

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

~ William Wordsworth