Old Age Quotes

A mortgaged home, an empty stomach and a ragged back know no party. We will live to write the epitaphs of the old parties: "Died of general debility, old age, and chronic falsehoods."

Observation, not old age, brings wisdom.

Old age is the harbor of all ills.

Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.

Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age.

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.

It is, I assume, quite easy to wither into old age, and hard to grow into it.

I have three best friends in this world. What's surprising is that they also happen to be your (audience) three best friends. They are Bachpan (childhood), Jawani (Youth) and Budhapa (old age).

(Wine is) the nurse of old age.

The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you're learning you're not old.

Sunrise paints the sky with pinks and the sunset with peaches. Cool to warm. So is the progression from childhood to old age.

The New Age? Its just the old age stuck in a microwave oven for fifteen seconds.

We ought not to heap reproaches on old age, seeing that we all hope to reach it.

When one begins to think of oneself as growing old, one is already old.

When does the loneliness of old age begin?

I have discovered the secret formula for a carefree old age: iycri = fi (if you can't recall it, forget it).

For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.

What do you fear, lady?" [Aragorn] asked. "A cage," [Éowyn] said. "To stay behind bars, until use and old age accept them, and all chance of doing great deeds is gone beyond recall or desire.

Old age is the time when birthday candles cost more than the birthday cake itself, and half of your urine is wasted on medical testing.

Spiritual practices help us move from identifying with the ego to identifying with the soul. Old age does that for you too. It spiritualizes people naturally.

Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.

Four specters haunt the poor - old age, accident, sickness and unemployment

I think old age is in each one's head; so if you're happy doing what you love, you're going to be young.

Old age and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance.

Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.

Meanness is incurable; it cannot be cured by old age, or by anything else.

Education is the best provision for old age.

Old age is an excellent time for outrage.

Old age is second childhood.

I don't know how you feel about old age... but in my case I didn't even see it coming. It hit me from the rear.

Old age is fifteen years older than I am.

Many believe - and I believe - that I have been designated for this work by God. In spite of my old age, I do not want to give it up; I work out of love for God and I put all my hope in Him.

Freedom, in childhood, may be the right to be totally self-centered. … But freedom in old age is the ability to be the best of the self I have developed during all those years.

Pleasure has its time; so too, has wisdom. Make love in thy youth, and in old age attend to thy salvation.

By my rambling digressions I perceive myself to be growing old.

Make wisdom your provision for the journey from youth to old age, for it is a more certain support than all other possessions.

Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife, This simple boon I beg of Fate - A thousand years of Middle Life.

Old age is when you are not bothered with bad dreams, but with bad reality.

The major thing I'm afraid of is being 65 and saying, 'Gee, I wish I had done this and that, and that.' I want to face old age knowing I've tried all I wanted to try.

Life moves out of a red flare of dreams Into a common light of common hours, Until old age brings the red flare again.

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.

The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.

The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude.

The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.

There are six myths about old age: 1. That it's a disease, a disaster. 2. That we are mindless. 3. That we are sexless. 4. That we are useless. 5. That we are powerless. 6. That we are all alike.

A woman tells her doctor, 'I've got a bad back.' The doctor says, 'It's old age.' The woman says, 'I want a second opinion.' The doctor says: 'Okay - you're ugly as well.'

Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.

Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself - a lad of about 19.

Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

There is only one solution if old age is not to be an absurd parody of our former life, and that is to go on pursuing ends that give our existence a meaning.