Old Quotes

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...

I hope I never get so old I get religious.

We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

One of the delights known to age and beyond the grasp of youth is that of 'not going'!

All that is gold does not glitter,Not all those who wander are lost;The old that is strong does not ...

When I was 12 years old, I got interested in learning English.

I am 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were 15 months in every year ...

A book is a wonderful present. Though it may grow worn, it will never grow old.

When you are forty half of you belongs to the past. . . And when you are seventy nearly all of you...

How beautifully the leaves grow old. How full of light and colour are their last days.

No Spring nor Summer beauty hath such grace As I have seen in one Autumnal face.

Look, Miranda, he said, those twenty long years that lie between you and me. I've more knowledge of ...

Old folks have dreams and ambitions too, like everybody else. Don't sit on a couch someplace.

Coming in solemn beauty like slow old tunes of Spain.

Don't clap too hard - it's a very old building.

He has made me wary of chronological snobbery. That is, he showed me that newness is no virtue and o...

He has made me wary of chronological snobbery. That is, he showed me that newness is no virtue and o...

He has made me wary of chronological snobbery. That is, he showed me that newness is no virtue and o...

He has made me wary of chronological snobbery. That is, he showed me that newness is no virtue and o...

Old friends are best.

The problem with aging is not that it's one damn thing after another—it's every damn thing, all at o...

The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion.

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

When I was a girl, my life was music that was always getting louder. Everything moved me. A dog foll...

Dignity high station or great riches are in some sort necessary to old men in order to keep the y...

Zsa Zsa Gabor when asked which of the Gabor women was the oldest said "She'll never admit it but ...

There werethings, he said mournfully, that perhaps could never be told, only hehad lived so much alo...

Thus ended the first and adventurous part of his existence. What followed was so different that, but...

I don't ever want to get old. Spare me that. Have you the power? No, even you don't have the power, ...

Youthfulness is about how you live not when you were born.

I haven't asked you to make me young again. All I want is to go on getting older.

The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people and greatly assist...

The 'good old times' - all times when old are good.

If only I had met Molly sooner, when it was still possible to choose one road rather than another. B...

When you reach your sixties you have to decide whether you're going to be a sot or an ascetic. In o...

It's a funny old world.

He had come to that time in his life (it varies for every man) when a human being gives himself over...

To an old man any place that's warm is homeland.

Old age is just a record of one's whole life.

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.