Old Age Quotes

It is our duty, my young friends, to resist old age.

No one is so old that he does not think he could live another year.

In particular I may mention Sophocles the poet, who was once asked in my presence, How do you feel about love, Sophocles? are you still capable of it? to which he replied, Hush! if you please: to my great delight I have escaped from it, and feel as if I had escaped from a frantic and savage master. I thought then, as I do now, that he spoke wisely. For unquestionably old age brings us profound repose and freedom from this and other passions.

There is no one so old as to not think they may live a day longer.

Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.

A nap, my friend, is a brief period of sleep which overtakes superannuated persons when they endeavor to entertain unwelcome visitors or to listen to scientific lectures.

In the days of thy youth seek to obtain that which shall compensate the losses of thy old age.

That folly of old age which is called dotage is peculiar to silly old men, not to age itself.

Old fools are greater fools than young ones.

A dissolute and intemperate youth hands down the body to old age in a worn-out state.

The best Armour of Old Age is a well spent life preceding it; a Life employed in the Pursuit of useful Knowledge, in honourable Actions and the Practice of Virtue; in which he who labours to improve himself from his Youth, will in Age reap the happiest Fruits of them; not only because these never leave a Man, not even in the extremest Old Age; but because a Conscience bearing Witness that our Life was well-spent, together with the Remembrance of past good Actions, yields an unspeakable Comfort to the Soul

So you see, old age is really not so bad. May you come to know the condition!

I could be well content To entertain the lag-end of my life With quiet hours.

Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

Planting is one of my great amusements, and even of those things which can only be for posterity, for a Septuagenary has no right to count on any thing but annuals.

The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.

What the object of senile avarice may be I cannot conceive. For can there be anything more absurd than to seek more journey money, the less there remains of the journey?

Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.

So here I sit in the early candle-light of old age-I and my book-casting backward glances over out travel'd road.

Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

Old age by nature is rather talkative.

It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures.

It is not well to make great changes in old age.

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

As I give thought to the matter, I find four causes for the apparent misery of old age; first, it withdraws us from active accomplishments; second, it renders the body less powerful; third, it deprives us of almost all forms of enjoyment; fourth, it stands not far from death.

Youth, large, lusty, loving -- Youth, full of grace, force, fascination. Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination?

Exercise and temperance can preserve something of our early strength even in old age.

Nothing is more incumbent on the old than to know when they should get out of the way and relinquish to younger successors the honors they can no longer earn, and the duties they can no longer perform.

For my own part, I had rather be old only a short time than be old before I really am so.

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

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

Learning maketh young men temperate, is the comfort of old age, standing for wealth with poverty, and serving as an ornament to riches.

The avarice of the old: it's absurd to increase one's luggage as one nears the journey's end.

I know not any season of life that is past more agreeably than virtuous old age.

Old married people look so much alike that they have the same number of hairs in their ears.

An intemperate, disorderly youth will bring to old age, a feeble and worn-out body.

It is quite wrong to think of old age as a downward slope. On the contrary, one climbs higher and higher with the ad-vancing years, and that, too with sur-prising strides. Brain-work comes as easily to the old as physical exertion to the child. One is moving, it is true, towards the end of life, but that end is now a goal, and not a reef in which the vessel may be dashed.

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.

Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.

It is better to be a young June-bug than an old bird of paradise.

Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

One wastes so much time, one is so prodigal of life, at twenty! Our days of winter count for double. That is the compensation of the old.

The old woman dies, the burden is lifted.

I am much beholden to old age, which has increased my eagerness for conversation in proportion as it has lessened my appetites of hunger and thirst.

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

Old people are fond of giving good advice; it consoles them for no longer being capable of setting a bad example.

It's an epitome of life. The first half of it consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.

Few know how to be old.

Tastes in young people are changed by natural impetuosity, and in the aged are preserved by habit.

Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.

You know you're old when someone compliments you on your alligator shoes, and you're barefoot.

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.

Old age is never honored among us, but only indulged, as childhood is; and old men lose one of the most precious rights of man,--that of being judged by their peers.

As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.

You know you're old if they have discontinued your blood type.

Old age takes in part savoury wisdom for its food - see to that your old age will not lack in nourishment.

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.[Lat., Mature fieri senem, si diu velis esses senex.]

A man must have grown old and lived long in order to see how short life is.