When I was very young I was disgracefully intolerant but when I passed the thirty mark I prided myself on having learned the beautiful lesson that all things were good and equally good. That however was really laziness. Now thank goodness I've sorted out what matters and what doesn't. And I'm beginning to be intolerant again.
~ G. B. Stern
It is the fear of being as dependent as a young child while not being loved as a child is loved but merely being kept alive against one's will.
~ Malcolm Cowley
Happy the man who gains sagacity in youth but thrice happy he who retains the fervour of youth in age.
~ Dagobert Runes
Your old men shall dream dreams your young men shall see visions.
~ Bible
I am long on ideas but short on time. I expect to live only about a hundred years.
~ Thomas A. Edison
How beautifully the leaves grow old. How full of light and colour are their last days.
~ John Burroughs
In the last few years everything I'd done up to sixty or so has seemed very childish.
~ T. S. Eliot
What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.
~ Jean Paul Richter
The young man knows the rules but the old man knows the exceptions.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
To know how to grow old is the master-work of wisdom and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
~ Henri-Frédéric Amiel
When you reach your sixties you have to decide whether you're going to be a sot or an ascetic. In other words if you want to go on working after you're sixty some degree of asceticism is inevitable.
~ Malcolm Muggeridge
Yes I'm 68 but when I was a boy I was too poor to smoke so knock off ten years. That makes me 58. And since I never developed the drinking habit you can knock off ten more years. So I'm 48 - in the prime of my life. Retire? Retire to what?
~ W. A. C. Bennett
Senescence begins And middle age ends The day your descendants Outnumber your friends.
~ Ogden Nash
As the world is wearie of me so am I of it.
~ John Knox
Middle age is when you have a choice of two temptations and choose the one that will get you home earlier.
~ Anonymous
No wise man ever wished to be younger.
~ Jonathan Swift
Every man who has lived his life to the full should by the time his senior years are reached have established a reserve inventory of unfinished thinking.
~ Clarence Randall
For the unlearned old age is winter for the learned it is the season of the harvest.
~ Hasidic Saying
My opportunities were still there nay they multiplied tenfold but the strength and youth to cope with them began to fail and to need eking out with the shifty cunning of experience.
~ George Bernard Shaw
I must be getting absent-minded. Whenever I complain that things aren't what they used to be I always forget to include myself.
~ George Burns
Golden lads and girls all must As chimney-sweepers come to dust.
~ William Shakespeare
It's never too late to have a fling For autumn is just as nice as spring And it's never too late to fall in love.
~ Sandy Wilson
Growing old - it's not nice but it's interesting.
~ August Strindberg
If you think that I am going to bother myself again before I die about social improvement or read any of those stinking upward and onwarders - you err - I mean to have some good out of being old.
They tell you that you'll lose your mind when you grow older. What they don't tell you is that you won't miss it very much.
I have learned little from the years that fly but I have wrung the colour from the years.
~ Frances Pollock
You discover you are old when your regrets replace your dreams.
~ Jeffrey Fry
I hope I never get so old I get religious.
~ Ingmar Bergman
Those who have no hope pass their old age shrouded with an inward gloom.
~ Wilfred Owen
Old folks have dreams and ambitions too, like everybody else. Don't sit on a couch someplace.
~ John Glenn
It's a funny old world.
~ Margaret Thatcher
I have this obsession with really cool, old books.
~ Constance Zimmer
I've tried word processors, but I think I'm too old a dog to use one.
~ Dee Brown
When I was five years old, I auditioned for the role of 'Tiny Tim in A Christmas Carol.'
~ Zach Anner
He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.
~ Bill Dana
My old dance teacher, Jimmy Wilde, a former European ballroom dancing champion, was so sophisticated.
~ Anton Du Beke
My old teacher's definition of poetry is an attempt to understand.
~ Thom Gunn
I came face to face with death at thirteen years old.
~ Ryan White
Old age is no place for sissies.
~ Bette Davis
It is not how old you are, but how you are old.
~ Jules Renard
