Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.
~ Lawrence Durrell
Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Old age is just a record of one's whole life.
~ Muhammad Ali
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.
~ Danny Dyer
Old age and the passage of time teach all things.
~ Sophocles
I have always paid income tax. I object only when it reaches a stage when I am threatened with having nothing left for my old age - which is due to start next Tuesday or Wednesday.
~ Noël Coward
Why do people talk of the horrors of old age? It's great. I feel like a fine old car with the parts gradually wearing out, but I'm not complaining,... Those who find growing old terrible are people who haven't done what they wanted with their lives.
~ Martha Gellhorn
How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
~ C. S. Lewis
Old age is the verdict of life.
~ Amelia Barr
Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.
~ Felix Frankfurter
The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.
~ Isaac D'israeli
Time, in general, has always been a central obsession of mine - what it does to people, how it can constitute a plot all on its own. So naturally, I am interested in old age.
~ Anne Tyler
A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.
~ Pindar
Old age is a shipwreck.
~ Charles De Gaulle
Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age.
~ Hesiod
Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier years.
~ Charlotte Brontë
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.
~ Marilyn Monroe
There's no such thing as old age. I'm no different now than I was 50 years ago. I'm just having more fun.
~ Philip Johnson
A lot of people are frightened by old age - by being around people who are, basically, on their way out - but I'm fascinated by it. It's an amazing thing to be around someone who has had a life well lived.
~ Cate Blanchett
How young can you die of old age?
~ Steven Wright
Save your money. You're going to need twice as much money in your old age as you think.
~ Michael Caine
All diseases run into one, old age.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The crucial task of old age is balance: keeping just well enough, just brave enough, just gay and interested and starkly honest enough to remain a sentient human being.
~ Florida Scott-Maxwell
What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
No lie ever reaches 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.
~ Billy Graham
That's the privilege of old age: You don't have to remember.
~ Alan Arkin
I admire those people who hold on to their elegance in old age but I'd rather have fun.
~ Heather Graham
We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.
~ Pearl S. Buck
What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.
~ Jean Paul
One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
~ Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.
~ Hosea Ballou
In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived.
~ Knut Hamsun
Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.
~ Louis Kronenberger
When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
~ Muriel Spark
Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.
~ Maurice Chevalier
Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.
~ Dorothy Canfield Fisher
The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.
~ Bob Wells
Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.
~ Ira Gershwin
Most women are indulgent of themselves. This is a mistake. It should be only the reward of old age.
~ Anna Held
