Old age Quotes · Page 15

A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.

— Meat Loaf

My health is good; it's my age that's bad.

— Roy Acuff

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

While we've youth in our hearts, we can never grow old.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

“If old age is good for anything it's good for being generous.”

— William Kuhn

Old age is by nature rather talkative.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Michelle Villaflor Amante

The only real change in life comes with the consciousness of old age.

— Austin O'Malley

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Grandchildren don't make a man feel old; it's the knowledge that he's married to a grandmother.

— J. Norman Collie

“Friendship matters, especially in old age, when death reduces the number of one's friends.”

— Marilyn Yalom

“The only things that old age comes standard with: grey hair and wrinkles. Wisdom and intellect are earned.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Religion often gets credit for curing rascals when old age is the real medicine.

— Austin O'Malley

We hope to grow old, and we dread old age; that is to say, we love life and flee from death.

— Jean de la Bruyere

You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the…

— Judith Viorst

Many old people receive pensions for no other reason, it seems to me, but as a compensation for having lived a long…

— Henry David Thoreau

And he shall be unto thee a restorer of thy life, and a nourisher of thine old age: for thy daughter in…

— Bible

To accept the fact that, after fertilization has taken place, a new human has come into being is no longer a matter…

— Jerome Lejeune

There has been enough suffering in our country, there has been enough of children whose dreams die before they have a chance…

— Anonymous

People do not realize that Alzheimer's is not old age. It is a progressive and fatal disease, and staggering amounts of people…

— Melina Kanakaredes

I guess I just couldn't see standing there -- alive, talking, thinking, breathing, being -- one second, and dead the next. It…

— Anonymous

“Maybe the conference was an inversion layer of another kind, bringing me face-to-face with old friends and old places. With cancer and…

— Connie Willis

“Seven Ages: first puking and mewling Then very pissed-off with your schooling Then fucks, and then fights Next judging chaps' rights Then…

— Robert Conquest

Either a peaceful old age awaits me, or death flies round me with black wings. [Lat., Seu me tranquilla senectus Exspectat, seu…

— Horace

“The number of her acquaintances multiplied over the years as the number of her true friendships diminished. The Grant Longitudinal Study found…

— David Brooks

“Not satisfied with what he's got? Is that it? That's husbands all over. Ungrateful pigs. You do everything for them, you bring…

— Fay Weldon

“No more tubs for me." I jumped off the bed and pulled on a pair of Pack sweats. "They make me lose…

— Ilona Andrews

“Here's what I think: when you're born, you're assigned a brain like you're assigned a desk, a nice desk, with plenty of…

— Elizabeth McCracken

When Abba Anthony thought about the depths of the judgments of God, he asked, 'Lord, how is it that some die when…

— Anthony the Great

“You are well aware that it is not numbers or strength that bring the victories in war. No, it is when one…

— Xenophon

Among us, I am happy to say, old age is honorable, and regarded as a blessing from the Lord. It is our…

— Lorenzo Snow

“Malcolm Muggeridge, once a keen British social and cultural critic who in his old age became something of a religious fanatic. While…

— S.T. Joshi

I die a little inside every time I see an old person alone at a restaurant.

— Anonymous

As long as you're working, you stay young.

— George Burns

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

— Leon Trotsky

“The best armour of old age is a well spent life perfecting it.”

— Charles T. Munger

The young break rules for fun. The old for profit.

— Mason Cooley

“It is better to waste your old age than to do nothing at all with it.”

— Julian Barnes

Whether it's growing up or growing old I'm on my way but I might be late

— Melody Minagar

“How did I get to be this old and still have to put up with so much crap?”

— T.W. Lawless