Old Quotes

Old foxes want no tutors.

~ Thomas Fuller

Old birds are hard to pluck.

~ German Proverb

A man of fifty looks as old as Santa Claus to a girl of twenty.

~ William Feather

How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?

~ Satchel Paige

The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.

~ Quentin Crisp

Before you contradict an old man my fair friend you should endeavour to understand him.

~ George Santayana

Zsa Zsa Gabor when asked which of the Gabor women was the oldest said She'll never admit it but I believe it is Mama. When men grow virtuous in their old age they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.

~ Jonathan Swift

When you are forty half of you belongs to the past. . . And when you are seventy nearly all of you.

~ Jean Anouilh

To an old man any place that's warm is homeland.

~ Maxim Gorky

By the time a man gets well into his seventies his continued existence is a mere miracle.

~ Robert Louis Stevenson

One trouble with growing older is that it gets progressively tougher to find a famous historical figure who didn't amount to much when he was your age.

~ Bill Vaughan

Forty is the old age of youth fifty is the youth of old age.

~ Victor Hugo

Middle age is youth without its levity And age without decay.

~ Daniel Defoe

And he (King David) died in a good old age full of days riches and honour.

~ Bible

I never dared be radical when young For fear it would make me conservative when old.

~ Robert Frost

Old age is by nature rather talkative.

~ Cicero

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

~ Cicero

Age has a good mind and sorry shanks.

~ Pietro Aretino

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

~ Bernard Baruch

Few people know how to be old.

~ La Rochefoucauld

First you forget names then you forget faces then you forget to pull your zipper up then you forget to pull your zipper down.

~ Leo Rosenberg

I really believe that more harm is done by old men who cling to their influence than by young men who anticipate it.

~ Owen D. Young

He had come to that time in his life (it varies for every man) when a human being gives himself over to his demon or to his genius according to a mysterious law which orders him either to destroy or to surpass himself.

~ Marguerite Yourcenar

The individual succumbs but he does not die if he has left something to mankind.

~ Will Durant

It is always in season for old men to learn.

~ Aeschylus

So lively brisk old fellow don't let age get you down. White hairs or not you can still be a lover.

~ Goethe

He that has seen both sides of fifty has lived to little purpose if he has no other views of the world than he had when he was much younger.

~ William Cowper

Let us respect gray hairs especially our own.

~ J. P. Senn

The spiritual eyesight improves as the physical eyesight declines.

~ Plato

A man over ninety is a great comfort to all his elderly neighbours: he is a picket-guard at the extreme outpost: and the young folks of sixty and seventy feel that the enemy must get by him before he can come near their camp.

~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

An old codger rampant and still learning.

~ Aldous Huxley

A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.

~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

Many a man that couldn't direct ye to th' drug store on th' corner when he was thirty will get a respectful hearin' when age has further impaired his mind.

~ Finley Peter Dunne

The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people and greatly assists the circulation of their blood.

~ Logan Pearsall Smith

Never have I enjoyed youth so thoroughly as I have in my old age. In writing Dialogues in Limbo The Last Puritan and now all these descriptions of the friends of my youth and the young friends of my middle age I have drunk the pleasure of life more pure more joyful than it ever was when mingled with all the hidden anxieties and little annoyances of actual living. 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.

~ George Santayana

The arctic loneliness of age.

~ S. Weir Mitchell

When pain ends gain ends too.

~ Robert Browning

No gains without pains.

~ Adlai Stevenson

Longevity is having a chronic disease and taking care of it.

~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

~ Tom Stoppard