Old Age Quotes And Sayings

by allinspiration.com

Here is a collection of old age quotes and sayings from various authors, celebrities, famous persons, and other sources compiled by allinspiration.com for you to read and enjoy.

“Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.”
– Anonymous

“The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.”
– Anonymous

“Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.”
– Anonymous

“Grow old along with me!The best is yet to be,The last of life, for which the first was made.”
– Anonymous

“All diseases run into one, old age.”
– Anonymous

“I’m like a good cheese. I’m just getting mouldy enough to be interesting.”
– Anonymous

“There is this difference between the grief of youth and that of old age: youth’s burden is lightened by as much of it as another shares; old age may give and give, but the sorrow remains the same.”
– Anonymous

“The counsels of the old, like the winter sun, shine, but give no heat.”
– Anonymous

“Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.”
– Anonymous

“We have confidence in an old man when holding a position, but lack confidence in him when he is applying for one.”
– Anonymous

“There is no place in which to hide.When Age comes seeking for his bride.”
– Anonymous

“Once a happy old man.One can never change the core of things, and light burns you the harder for it.”
– Anonymous

“What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.”
– Anonymous

“Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.”
– Anonymous

“I truly believe that age – – if you’re healthy – – age is just a number.”
– Anonymous

“The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.”
– Anonymous

“We’ve put more effort into helping folks reach old age than into helping them enjoy it.”
– Anonymous

“Old age ought to be, and essentially is a manifestation of what is hidden in the depths of man’s nature. It might be, it should be, not an exhibition of crackling impotence and gloomy decay, but the very crown and ripening of life- – the symbol of maturity, not of dissolution.”
– Anonymous

“Old age is a special problem for me because I’ve never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself – a lad of about 19.”
– Anonymous

“Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.”
– Anonymous

“The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.”
– Anonymous

“Until thirty we live through curiosity, after that out of sheer spite and bravado.”
– Anonymous

“There was already something dead about him. He didn’t rear back in his knees any longer. He squatted over his ankles when he walked. That stillness at the back of his neck. His prosperous- looking belly…sagged like a load suspended from his loins.”
– Anonymous

“But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave.”
– Anonymous

“Whenever a man’s friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.”
– Anonymous

“Thou hast had thty day, old dame, but thy sun has long been set. Thou art now the very emblem of an old warhorse turned out on the barren heath; thou hast had thy paces in thy time, but now a broken amble is the best of them.”
– Anonymous

“When you tire of living, change itself seems evil, does it not? for then any change at all disturbs the deathlike peace of the life- weary.”
– Anonymous

“WHEN you are old and grey and full of sleep;And nodding by the fire, take down this book,And slowly read, and dream of the soft lookYour eyes had once, and of their shadows deep;”
– Anonymous

“Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.”
– Anonymous

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

“Sunrise paints the sky with pinks and the sunset with peaches. Cool to warm. So is the progression from childhood to old age.”
– Anonymous

“I’ve finally reached the age where my Wild Oats have turned into All- Bran!”
– Anonymous

“You know you’re getting older when you notice that more and more history questions happened in your lifetime!”
– Anonymous

“I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I’m not old yet!”
– Anonymous

“The solitude in which we are left by the death of our friends is one of the great evils of protracted life. When I look back to the days of my youth, it is like looking over a field of battle. All, all dead! and ourselves left alone midst a new generation whom we know not, and who know not us.”
– Anonymous

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