The Old Quotes

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.

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.

For the unlearned old age is winter for the learned it is the season of the harvest.

I must be getting absent-minded. Whenever I complain that things aren't what they used to be I always forget to include myself.

We grow neither better nor worse as we get old but more like ourselves

Growing old - it's not nice but it's interesting.

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.

I have learned little from the years that fly but I have wrung the colour from the years.

Keep the enthusiasm of your youth and treasure the wisdom of old age.

You discover you are old when your regrets replace your dreams.

was coming to that troubled twilight time, a time of regrets that resemble hopes, of hopes that resemble regrets, when youth is past but old age has not yet come.

These people are real to me, and situations keep coming up where their emergence feels natural. It's like meeting old friends. I hope readers feel the same way.

Old folks have dreams and ambitions too, like everybody else. Don't sit on a couch someplace.

When I was five years old, I auditioned for the role of 'Tiny Tim in A Christmas Carol.'

He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

I got an old school coach who's more of a teacher than a coach.

My old dance teacher, Jimmy Wilde, a former European ballroom dancing champion, was so sophisticated.

You ever try to beat your dad up? It just don't happen. He's got that old man strength.

The themes that make one laugh always stem from poverty, hunger, misery, old age, sickness, and death. These are the themes that make Italians laugh, anyway.

Cherish all your happy moments they make a fine cushion for old age.

In youth, the days are short and the years are long. In old age, the years are short and days long.

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

Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.

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

Advice in old age is foolish for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.

Error is acceptable as long as we are young but one must not drag it along into old age.

That's the privilege of old age: You don't have to remember.

I admire those people who hold on to their elegance in old age but I'd rather have fun.