Age Old Quotes

Age and treachery will triumph over youth and skill.

An old man concludeth from his knowing mankind that they know him too and that maketh him very wary.

An old man loved is Winter with flowers.

An older author is constantly rediscovering himself in the more or less fossilized productions of his earlier years.

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you have not committed.

Here's a new day. 0 Pendulum move slowly!

I haven't asked you to make me young again. All I want is to go on getting older.

I refuse to admit that I am more than 52 even if that makes my sons illegitimate.

If I'd known I was gonna live this long (100 years) I'd have taken better care of myself.

If the young only knew if the old only could.

Middle age snuffs out more talent than even wars or sudden deaths do.

The old repeat themselves and the young have nothing to say. The boredom is mutual.

There is many a good tune played on an old fiddle.

Time goes by: reputation increases ability declines.

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

Wrinkles - the service stripes of life.

One of the delights known to age and beyond the grasp of youth is that of 'not going'!

Middle age: when you're sitting at home on Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.

If you live long enough the venerability factor creeps in you get accused of things you never did and praised for virtues you never had.

Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form.

I feel age like an icicle down my back.

Old age is a time of humiliations the most disagreeable of which for me is that I cannot work long at sustained high pressure with no leaks in concentration.

Dignity high station or great riches are in some sort necessary to old men in order to keep the younger at a distance who are otherwise too apt to insult them upon the score of their age.

Old foxes want no tutors.

Old birds are hard to pluck.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Few people know how to be old.

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

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

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

Let us respect gray hairs especially our own.

An old codger rampant and still learning.

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

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

Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

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.

Happy the man who gains sagacity in youth but thrice happy he who retains the fervour of youth in age.

Your old men shall dream dreams your young men shall see visions.

What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.

The young man knows the rules but the old man knows the exceptions.

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.

Senescence begins And middle age ends The day your descendants Outnumber your friends.

As the world is wearie of me so am I of it.

Middle age is when you have a choice of two temptations and choose the one that will get you home earlier.