#Old Age Quotes

“An old man, broken with the storms of state,Is come to lay his weary bones among ye;Give him a little earth for charity!”

“Last scene of all that ends this strange, eventful history, is second childishness and mere oblivion. I am sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.”

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

“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.”

“All diseases run into one, old age.”

“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.”

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

“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?”

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

“Old age: The estuary that enlarges and spreads itself grandly as it pours into the Great Sea.”

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

“Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of 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.”

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

“The old man laughed loud and joyously, shook up the details of his anatomy from head to foot, and ended by saying that such a laugh was money in a man's pocket, because it cut down the doctor's bills like everything.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money. Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors.”

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

“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!”

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

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

“These (literary) studies are the food of youth, and consolation of age; they adorn prosperity, and are the comfort and refuge of adversity; they are pleasant at home, and are no incumbrance abroad; they accompany us at night, in our travels, and in our rural retreats.”

“A youth of sensuality and intemperance delivers over to old age a worn-out body.”

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

“A sensual and intemperate youth hands over a worn-out body to old age.[Lat., Libidinosa etenim et intemperans adolescentiam effoetum corpus tradit senectuti.]”

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

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

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

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

“I'm a very old man.I've had lots of problems.Most of them never happened..!”

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

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

“Little by little old age renders the body less powerful.”

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

“Old age by nature is rather talkative.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“It is a good idea to obey all the rules when you're young just so you'll have the strength to break them when you're old.”

“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.”

“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.]”