Book Quote by Ambrose Bierce

OLD, adj. In that stage of usefulness which is not inconsistent with general inefficiency, as an _old man_. Discredited by lapse of time and…

— Ambrose Bierce

Do not call yourself old. A man is as old as the creative force within him.

— Irving Stone

Old men, for the most part, are like old chronicles that give you dull but true accounts of times past, and are worth knowing…

— Alexander Pope

Old is man when he is born and young, young ever after.

— Taliesin

What’s old doesn’t need to be old-fashioned. It gets reborn.

— John Jeremiah Sullivan

“The old continue to be old-fashioned, though their youths were modern. We grow backward, aging into our father’s opinions and even into those of…

— John Updike

The essence of age is intellect. Wherever that appears, we call it old.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Old age is an ordeal, of flesh and mind. Of winding down, of slowing down, of dying cells. It's accepting the loss of physical…

— Colleen McCullough

I'm old-fashioned beyond my years.

— Muriel Spark

"Ageism" or whatever you want to call it, is a very English phenomenon. You don't get it too much in many other cultures. And…

— Paul Weller

“It may be that what we call modern is nothing, but what is not worthy of remaining to become old.”

— Dante Alighieri

“We forget that 'old' in age typically does not mean 'old' in terms of relevance.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough