Old age Quotes · Page 14

Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician.

— Dorothy Parker

We are not limited by our old age; we are liberated by it.

— Stu Mittleman

I cannot, in my old age, live off pieces of my youth.

— Peter Biskind

[Time was] an accordion, all the air squeezed out of it as you grew old.

— Helen Hooven Santmyer

When you're old, everything you do is sort of a miracle.

— Millicent Fenwick

I do not believe in old age. I do not believe in getting tired.

— Maxine Hong Kingston

In my medicine cabinet, the winter fly has died of old age.

— Jack Kerouac

Old age makes us wiser and more foolish

— Russyb

Youth wrenches the sceptre from old age, and sets the crown on its own head before it is entitled to it.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Why should we stunt our ambitions and impoverish our lives in order to be insulted and looked down upon in our old…

— Joseph A. Schumpeter

What you lose as you age is witnesses, the ones that watched from early on and cared, like your own little grandstand.

— John Updike

When we come to the sundown road, we need all the love we have managed to take with us from the summit…

— Myrtle Reed

I don't know what the big deal is about old age. Old people who shine from the inside look 10 to 20 years younger.

— Dolly Parton

Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out…

— Mark Twain

One good reason for writing novels based on your life is that you have something to read in old age when you've…

— Nina Bawden

When a man becomes old, his greed becomes young: sleep grows heavy at the time of morning.

— Saib Tabrizi

Years ago, I thought old age would be dreadful, because I should not be able to do things I would want to…

— Nancy Astor

Those who are born of parents broken with old age, or of such as are not yet ripe or are too young,…

— Thomas Willis

“I thought, too, about time. How fleet it is, and how certain, and like death how indifferent to our commentary upon it.…

— Charles Finch

“He looked at his dry old hand and it seemed to him that in this atmosphere, he had himself become more reptilian…

— Cordwainer Smith

“You and I have tied the nuptial knot that will never be broken. We will have many children, we will enjoy a…

— Shin Jae

At the beginning of a marriage ask yourself whether this woman will be interesting to talk to from now until old age.…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“What creature goes on four feet in the morning, on two at noonday, on three in the evening? Man. In childhood he…

— Oedipus

I have three best friends in this world. What's surprising is that they also happen to be your (audience) three best friends.…

— Kishore Kumar

“When a man rides a long time through wild regions he feels the desire for a city. Finally he comes to Isidora,…

— Italo Calvino

“In the case of Michel Angelo we have an artist who with brush and chisel portrayed literally thousands of human forms; but…

— Edward Carpenter

“The truth is, Socrates, that these regrets, and also the complaints about relations, are to be attributed to the same cause, which…

— Cephalus

“You want to leave the moat, to go back to the room; you’re already turning and trying to find the door, covered…

— Sasha Sokolov

Poetry is related to philosophy as experience is related to empirical science. Experience makes us acquainted with the phenomenon in the particular…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

There can be no freedom of the individual, no democracy, without the capital system, the profit system, the private enterprise system. These…

— Russell Cornell Leffingwell

The statesman, lawyer, merchant, man of trade Pants for the refuge of some rural shade, Where all his long anxieties forgot Amid…

— William Cowper

“Alma's existence at once felt bigger and much, much smaller — but a pleasant sort of smaller. The world had scaled itself…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Don't let aging get you down. It's too hard to get back up.

— John Wagner

Old age: I fall asleep during the funerals of my friends.

— Mason Cooley

What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.

— Jean Paul

The delights of reading impart the vivacity of youth even to old age.

— Isaac D'Israeli

To love is a pleasure of youth, a sin in old age.

— Publilius Syrus

Old age is, so to speak, the sanctuary of ills: they all take refuge in it.

— Antiphanes

The old age of an eagle is better than the youth of a sparrow.

— Proverb

[On being the oldest living human being:] God must have forgotten me.

— Jeanne Calment