Old Age Quotes

Old Age Quote of the day

Travel is a caprice in childhood, a passion in youth, a necessity in manhood, and an elegy in old age.

The ultimate self is free from sin, free from old age, free from death and grief, free from hunger and thirst, which desires nothing and imagines nothing.

Relish love in your old age! Aged love is like aged wine; it becomes more satisfying, more refreshing, more valuable, more appreciated and more intoxicating!

In the City of Death, there is pitch darkness and huge clouds of dust, neither sister nor brother is there. This body is frail, old age is overtaking it.

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.

In Europe democracy is a falsehood. I do not know where it will end, but it cannot end in a quiet old age.

She looked much younger than her age, indeed, which is almost always the case with women who retain serenity of spirit, sensitiveness and pure sincere warmth of heart to old age.

The pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion.

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

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

My mother enjoyed old age, and because of her I've begun to enjoy parts of it too. So far I've had it good and am crumbling nicely.

The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.

Old age is like climbing a mountain. You climb from ledge to ledge. The higher you get, the more tired and breathless you become, but your views become more extensive.

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

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

Seek to learn constantly while you live; do not wait in the faith that old age by itself will bring wisdom.

Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.

Old age: The estuary that enlarges and spreads itself grandly as it pours into the Great Sea.

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

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

Old age is when broadness of the mind and narrowness of the waist change places.

The death of rock was not a natural death. Rock did not die of old age. It was murdered.

In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived.

Old age is a hindrance to creativity but cannot crush my youthful spirit.

I don't tap dance, and I don't think you can learn to tap dance in three weeks at my ripe old age.

I have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which should accompany old age, as honor, love, obedience, troops of friends I must not look to have.

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.

In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Sibelius justified the austerity of his old age by saying that while other composers were engaged in manufacturing cocktails, he offered the public pure cold water.

Old age means realizing you will never own all the dogs you wanted to.

Old age isn't a battle; old age is a massacre.

Free government cannot long endure if property is largely in a few hands, and large masses of people are unable to earn homes, education, and a support in old age.

I prefer old age to the alternative.

Old age - that's when a woman takes vitamins A through G, and still looks like H.

Millions of people are afraid of the past, the future, old age, insanity and death. But fear is a thought in your mind. This means that you are afraid of your own thoughts.

People do not realize that Alzheimer's is not old age. It is a progressive and fatal disease, and staggering amounts of people develop Alzheimer's every day.

A man's character never changes radically from youth to old age. What happens is that circumstances bring out characteristics which have not been obvious to the superficial observer.

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

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

I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I'm not old yet!

We retire too early and we die too young, our prime of life should be in the 70's and old age should not come until we are almost 100.

A person's life from infancy to old age is nothing else than an advance from the world towards heaven, the last stage of which is death; the actual transition from one life to the next.

[On old age:] You wake up one morning and you got it.

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

We do ourselves and others a disservice when we make old age something to be feared...The longer we live, the more life we possess.

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

Middle age is when you go to bed at night and hope you feel better in the morning. Old age is when you go to bed at night and hope you wake up in the morning.

I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.

It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary... to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.

Drunkenness, the ruin of reason, the destruction of strength, premature old age, momentary death.