Old Age Quotes: top 100 famous quotes about Old Age

Old Age Quotes & Sayings

Happy to read and share the best inspirational Old Age quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes.

When the body is still healthy and diseaseless, When old age has not yet attacked it — Swami Vivekananda

When you get rid of all the older people, you get rid of all the wisdom. — Terraine Francois

When one begins to think of oneself as growing old, one is already old. — Elsie De Wolfe

So while our art cannot, as we wish it could, save us from wars, privation, envy, greed, old age, or death, it can revitalize us amidst it all. — Ray Bradbury

We are at that very point in time when a 400-year old age is rattling in its death bed and another is struggling to be born. — Dee Hock

I was born in Iran, left at a very young age - less than a year old - and grew up and was educated in the West. — Hooman Majd

I would not have so many scripts being driven by demographics. The play's the thing - not the 18-35 year old male age group. — Stephen Tobolowsky

When I got old enough to go to night clubs to hear that music at the age of 15. — Johnny Winter

It is the fear of middle-age in the young, of old-age in the middle-aged, which is the prime cause of infidelity, that infallible rejuvenator. — Cyril Connolly

I'm 68 years old, and I'm as much a criminal now as I was at the age of 22. And, I'm even more of a dissident than I was then. — Felice Picano

To me old age is always fifteen years older than I am. — Bernard M. Baruch

I saw things at an early age because my mom was a theater actress. I did a play with her when I was 10 years old. — Sam Rockwell

My mother worked in the old Minsky's troupe, which toured the country in the golden age of burlesque theatre. — Seymour Cassel

I am grown peaceful as old age tonight. — Robert Browning

Age wins and one must learn to grow old. — Diana Cooper

You do not play then at whist, sir? Alas, what a sad old age you are preparing for yourself! — Charles Lamb

The old age old story of Yin & Yang ... Every positive side has a negative side too. Which are you? — Timothy Pina

One compensation of old age is that it excuses you from picnics. — William Feather

Our patents' old age shocks us in the same manner that our children's growth to maturity does , but without the joy. — Azar Nafisi

We are never old with the strength of the spirit, although the body may fail. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I think I was around 15 when my Dad was 40 and thought, "Man he's old. There's no way I'll be skating at that age." — Christian Hosoi

Now, settle down, settle down. Hell, I'm an old man, it's early in the morning and I'm gathering my thoughts here. — Donald Rumsfeld

While we've youth in our hearts, we can never grow old. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Everything has to be at once for six-month-old puppies, six-year-old children, and reformers of any age. — H. Beam Piper

In the last analysis, most of our difficulties come from losing contact with our instincts, with the age-old forgotten wisdom stored up in us. — C. G. Jung

Most fatal diseases had their own specific odor, but ... none was as specific as old age. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses. — Francis Bacon

Don't grow up to fast, darling. Age is inevitable, but if you nuture a childlike heart, you'll never ever grow old. — Beth Hoffman

The older I get, the less I enjoy the presence of other people. — Tracy Guzeman

If old age means a crown of thorns, the trick is to wear it jauntily. — Clare Boothe Luce

Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age. — Lactantius

I was not so old that I would deny my own senses. — Neil Gaiman

That which is usually called dotage is not the weak point of all old men, but only of such as are distinguished by their levity. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

For if someone died at an old age, or of natural causes, a funeral was a time of celebration rather than mourning. — Sheng-Shih Lin

Our old age was in some respects the happiest period of life. — Charles Eastman

I don't know what the big deal is about old age. Old people who shine from the inside look 10 to 20 years younger. — Dolly Parton

Fancy and humour, early and constantly indulged in, may expect an old age overrun with follies. — Isaac Watts

Cynicism is a boring and dull old man's disease people have no business getting when they're young. — Erika Lopez

In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long. — Pope Paul VI

Is this the final treachery of time, that the old become a burden upon the young? — Winifred Holtby

I tell you old and young are better than tired middle-aged, nothing is so dead dead-tired, dead every way as middle-aged. — Gertrude Stein

It is easier to counterfeit old age than youth. — Barbara Mertz

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

Old age is women's hell. — Ninon De L'Enclos

To come across as younger than they are: Women buy creams that promise to slow aging; men buy fast cars. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Little by little old age renders the body less powerful. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

But until we are old ladies- a cypress age, a Sawtooth age- I will continue to link arms with her, in public, in private, in a panic of love. — Karen Russell

A century ago, life screwed that poor man and me because we were too young, and now they want to do the same thing because we are too old. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

I wish I was 18 again, not that I don't like the age I'm at right now, but at 18yrs old I knew everything! — Michael Nuccio

Some one has said of a fine and honorable old age, that it was the childhood of immortality. — John Wolcot

We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

REFUSAL
When you refuse
to tell your weight
and age,
people know
you're fat and old. — Chocolate Waters

Save your money. You're going to need twice as much money in your old age as you think. — Michael Caine

For a period of 17 years - from the age of 9 until I was 25 years old - my mother never spent a day free from domestic difficulties. — Chiang Kai-shek

Pictures that don't make sense are magic. they hold balls of light covered in millions of spells swirled into a cell. — Alexa Kitchen

It pleased him to see that things, and not only people, suffered the wear and tear of age. [53 yr old Inspector Bordelli's view] — Marco Vichi

I am a fading phantasmagoria. Time has left me in partial glory. — Fidelis O. Mkparu

Unlike old age or cancer, no one anticipates a suicide. — Jay Asher

Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form. — Andre Maurois

You know what makes me feel old? When I see girls who are 20-something, or the new crop of actresses, and think, Aren't we kind of the same age? — Jennifer Aniston

I love the optimism on the shores of youth, where time hasn't yet eroded faith. — Amy Neftzger

I'm old and the mirrors don't lie. — Leonard Cohen

A man that is young in years may be old in hours if he have lost no time. — Francis Bacon

The spirit should never grow old. — John Kenneth Galbraith

Embrace old age and enjoy it. Not everyone gets there. — Patricia Smith

Old men and comets have been reverenced for the same reason: their long beards, and pretences to foretell events. — Jonathan Swift

You were young, I thought, not once but always before, always always, every day before the day just passed. You were young only minutes ago. — Timothy Schaffert

Like trapped animals struggling to break free. What a curse was sickness in old age. This damned Parkinson's, cruel as torture. — Rohinton Mistry

Old age robs you of every last illusion, even the belief in your own goodness. — Jill Ciment

The women ranged in age, but they were all old enough to know that in the currency of friendship, empathy is more valuable than accuracy. — Erica Bauermeister

The law must be consonant with life. . . . Mankind is possessed of no greater urge than to try to understand the age-old question: "Who am I$ — Barbara Bisantz Raymond

I worked hard in gymnastics since the time I was six years old until I retired at 23 years of age. — Nadia Comaneci

Memory, wit, fancy, acuteness, cannot grow young again in old age, but the heart can. — Jean Paul

I have a friend who likes to date younger women because their stories are shorter. Old men like us, our stories are longer. — Jerry N. Uelsmann

Maybe I'll be a feminist in my old age. — Bjork

Old people really do have a secret though. You wanna know what it is? Luck. — Craig Ferguson

There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow. — Fay Weldon

It's ironic, really, isn't it? Nineteen-year age gap, and it's the old bloke who comes in his pants, and the twenty-something with performance issues. — Jay Northcote

Old age is when the liver spots show through your gloves. — Phyllis Diller

Gene Siskel used to describe old-age makeup as making young actors look like turtles. — Roger Ebert

Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age. — Walter Savage Landor

It is the common vice of all, in old age, to be too intent upon our interests. — Terence

There comes with old age a time when the heart is no longer fusible or malleable, and must retain the form in which it has cooled down. — Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Exercise and temperance can preserve something of our early strength even in old age. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Bear with my weakness. My old brain is troubled.
Be not disturbed with my infirmity. — William Shakespeare

If the soul has food for study and learning, nothing is more delightful than an old age of leisure. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Old age and death are in the natural course of things. There is nothing a doctor can do about them. — Muso Soseki

There is no old age of the soul. — Saul Bellow

Do you set down your name in the scroll of youth, that are written down old with all the characters of age? — William Shakespeare

My life, I realize suddenly, is July. Childhood is June, and old age is August, but here it is, July, and my life, this year, is July inside of July. — Rick Bass

The fear of old age disturbs us, yet we are not certain of becoming old. — Jean De La Bruyere

You are never too old to learn. — American Proverb.

In 1482, Quasimodo was about twenty years of age; Claude Frollo, about thirty-six. One had grown up, the other had grown old. — Victor Hugo

Even under a harsh God-and I do not believe in a harsh God-one is entitled to serenity in old age. — Albert Outler

A person gets built and stands for a few years and then nature's demolition team comes in. — Dan Groat

Old men, imagining themselves under obligation to young paramours, seldom keep any thing from their knowledge. — Samuel Richardson

My career as an actor started when I was six years old, taking dancing lessons. Then I started getting paid jobs to dance at the age of seven. — Sid Haig

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

Old age creeps on us ere we think it nigh. — John Dryden