Old Age Quotes

Old age is like learning a new profession. And not one of your own choosing.

The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young.

There are three things I noticed about being thirty-three: Failing memory, hair loss and failing memory.
Derren Victor Brown

Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.

Children are a great comfort in your old age -- and they help you reach it faster, too.
Lionel Kauffman

All diseases run into one, old age.

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.
Leon Trotsky

Burn old wood, read old books, drink old wines, have old friends.
Alfonso X

Many people think old age is a disease, something to be thwarted if possible. But someone has said that if any period is a disease, it is youth. Age is recovering from it.
T. C. Myers

You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

Growing old is compulsory - growing up is optional.
Bob Monkhouse

Old age is a shipwreck.

Old age is the repose of life; the rest that precedes the rest that remains.
Robert Collyer

Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.
Justice Felix Frankfurter

It is a characteristic of old age to find the progress of time accelerated. The less one accomplishes in a given time, the shorter does the retrospect appear.
Wilhelm von Humboldt

One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up.

That sign of old age, extolling the past at the expense of the present.

The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you’re learning, you’re not old.
Rosalyn S. Yalow

Age is a question of mind over matter.If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

Living to a ripe old age may not be one of humanity's great blessings, but to live with gusto at a ripe old age is to discover not only what life is about, but what it's always been about.
Joe Klock

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

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

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







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