Old age Quotes · Page 21

Age is information failure. The body loses fluency.

— Jeanette Winterson

There is no old age. There is, as there always was, just you.

— Carol Grace

A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.

— Pindar

Old age is a hindrance to creativity but cannot crush my youthful spirit.

— Rembrandt

We have a great regard for old age when it is bottled.

— Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar

Inside many of us is a small old man who wants to get out.

— Anne Sexton

“Avoid the stage of old age sit in the audience, it's all the rage”

— Benny Bellamacina

It is our duty, my young friends, to resist old age.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.

— Theodore Roosevelt

You can live in the same city your entire life and still be completely a foreigner when you step out, in your…

— Mohsin Hamid

For two years I watched my parents' lives wind to a close. This made me aware of old age as a one…

— Alix Kates Shulman

It is the fear of middle-age in the young, of old-age in the middle-aged, which is the prime cause of infidelity, that…

— Cyril Connolly

It's true, some wine improves with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.

— Abigail Van Buren

“Old age is not a limitation or that your time have expired. Retirement is not that you are tired.You have more experience”

— Ikechukwu Joseph

Every citizen will be able, in his productive years when he is earning, to insure himself against the ravages of illness in…

— Lyndon B Johnson

And now I'm old and going--I'm sure I can't tell where; One comfort is, this world's so hard, I can't be worse…

— Charles Kingsley

Old age hath yet his honor and his toil. Death closes all; but something ere the end, Some work of noble note,…

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

“Wise men never grow up, because the spirit of youthfulness is a bed fellow of optimism that is the only reality in…

— Qamar Rafiq

I'm growing fonder of my staff; I'm growing dimmer in the eyes; I'm growing fainter in my laugh; I'm growing deeper in…

— John Godfrey Saxe

[On Malcolm Muggeridge:] He thinks he was knocked off his horse by God, like St. Paul on the road to Damascus. His…

— Katharine Whitehorn

The greatest tragedy of old age is the tendency for the old to feel unneeded, unwanted, and of no use to anyone;…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

I realized it might be possible to do such a thing, run for money, trot for wages on piece work at a…

— Alan Sillitoe

All this [Paul's writing] is nothing better than the jargon of a conjurer who picks up phrases he does not understand to…

— Thomas Paine

Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of…

— Louisa May Alcott

For West is where we all plan to go some day. It is where you go when the land gives out and…

— Robert Penn Warren

“In theory, I would like to lead a transparent life. I wold like my life to be as clear as a new…

— Meg Rosoff

What makes me so certain that the natural human lifespan is far in excess of the actual one is this. Among all…

— Hans Selye

“Architecture without pain, art looked at in undiluted pleasure, enjoyment without anxiety, compunction, heartache: there is no beggar woman in the church…

— Sybille Bedford

“Charles Darwin came to marriage with some trepidation. Of course he studied it carefully, cataloging the pluses and minuses of the connubial…

— Annabelle Gurwitch

“Maybe universal nostalgia doesn't exist. Maybe each of us carries our own personal version of the better times. It's at about twnety-two…

— Caleb J. Ross

“Nothing in the past has shaken the foundation of our faith. Nothing in the present can move it. Nothing in the future…

— Charles Spurgeon

“She knew from listening to her grandmother that old age was made up of such remembrances of youth. But she didn’t want…

— Betty Smith

Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Old age saves us from the realization of a great many fears.”

— Graham Greene

I call it nirvana, the complete destruction of old age and dying.

— Gautama Buddha

I would rather be old for a shorter time than be old before my time.

— Michel de Montaigne

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

— Leon Trotsky

Cherish youth, ... but trust old age. ~Pueblo

— Aroha Janet

About the only thing that comes without effort is old age..

— Anonymous

“A comfortable old age without health is poverty.”

— Tamerlan Kuzgov