Old Quotes

Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young.

Middle age: when you're sitting at home on Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it is...

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

Young people, nowadays, imagine that money is everything.Yes, murmured Lord Henry, settling his butt...

Forty-two. His age had astounded him for years, and each time that he had sat so astounded, trying t...

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

Age has a good mind and sorry shanks.

The spiritual eyesight improves as the physical eyesight declines.

I would fain grow old learning many things.

As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.

It is time to be old To take in sail.

All diseases run into one, old age.

Time makes everything mean and shabby and wrinkled. The tragedy of life, Howard, is not that the bea...

The less respect an older person deserves the more certain he is to demand it from anyone younger.

Anybody can look at a pretty girl and see a pretty girl. An artist can look at a pretty girl and see...

Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.

When pain ends gain ends too.

Grow old with me! The best is yet to be The last of life for which the first was made: Our times a...

I never dared be radical when young For fear it would make me conservative when old.

By the time a man gets well into his seventies his continued existence is a mere miracle.

Remember the days when you let your child have some chocolate if he finished his cereal? Now, chocol...

The only time they ever throw anything away is when it's really and truly broken, and then they make...

Astride of a grave and a difficult birth.Down in the hole, lingeringly, the grave digger puts on the...

How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?

The role of a retired person is no longer to possess one.

No lie ever reaches old age.

In the last few years everything I'd done up to sixty or so has seemed very childish.

The young feel tired at the end of an action The old at the beginning.

The difference between being an elder statesman And posing successfully as an elder statesman Is pra...

My old teacher's definition of poetry is an attempt to understand.

All the best sands of my life are somehow getting into the wrong end of the hourglass. If I could on...

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

Old foxes want no tutors.

Old foxes want no tutors.

Old foxes want no tutors.

Old foxes want no tutors.

Old foxes want no tutors.

Old foxes want no tutors.

Old foxes want no tutors.

Old foxes want no tutors.

Our challenge is to join forces of the old and the new- experience and experiment, history and desti...

The good old days are now.

Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

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

Why--?" he jerked his thumb in the direction of the young, "when they're so lovely--"She too looked ...

I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pl...

I am of old and young, of the foolish as much as the wise,Regardless of others, ever regardful of ot...

Those who have no hope pass their old age shrouded with an inward gloom.

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

He that has seen both sides of fifty has lived to little purpose if he has no other views of the wor...

A man of fifty looks as old as Santa Claus to a girl of twenty.

We do not die wholly at our deaths: we have moldered away gradually long before. Faculty after facul...

The short words are best, and the old words are the best of all.

And in the past, Archie wondered, was it just that fewer people cheated? Were they more honest, and ...

But time growing old teaches all things.

It is always in season for old men to learn.

An old codger rampant and still learning.

...a great future behind him, already

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

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

A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating.

It doesn't matter who you are or where you come from or what you look like or who you love. It doesn...

Beauty and folly are old companions.

All would live long but none would be old.

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

There was rarely an obvious branching point in a person's life. People changed slowly, over time. Yo...

A man doesn't grow old because he has lived a certain number of years. A man grows old when he deser...

I'm very boring. I'm a mom. I'm 34 years old.

How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

You are never too old to set a new goal or to dream a new dream.

(by the way . . . I realize I switch from present to past tense, and if you don't like it . . . ram ...

Old age is a shipwreck.

I'm a big old romantic.

I can promise you this: If you really, sincerely, genuinely want God back, He hasn't moved. He's sti...

Time goes by: reputation increases ability declines.

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

I'm very pleased with each advancing year. It stems back to when I was forty. I was a bit upset abou...

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

Life has got to be lived - that's all there is to it. At seventy I would say the advantage is that ...

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

We are forlorn like children, and experienced like old men, we are crude and sorrowful and superfici...

My God,' he gasped, 'you're fun to kiss.

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

Many a man that couldn't direct ye to th' drug store on th' corner when he was thirty will get a res...

It was that wisdom to us when it can no longer do any good

Age isn't how old you are but how old you feel.

My opportunities were still there nay they multiplied tenfold but the strength and youth to cope ...

I must be getting absent-minded. Whenever I complain that things aren't what they used to be I alwa...

It's an old ploy of the bourgeoisie. They keep a standing 'art' to defend their collapsing culture.

All true tea lovers not only like their tea strong, but like it a little stronger with each year tha...

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

Never have I enjoyed youth so thoroughly as I have in my old age. In writing Dialogues in Limbo The...

The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

I am just turning 40 and taking my time about it.

I've been dating since I was 15 years old, and I just don't seem to do it well.

For me- and for everybody else, probably- this is my first experience growing old, and the emotions ...

A long time ago I lived in Lisbon,' she said, in softly slurred Portuguese that made the name of the...

Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of ...

If you live long enough the venerability factor creeps in you get accused of things you never did a...

Old age is a time of humiliations the most disagreeable of which for me is that I cannot work lon...