Children Quote by David Greenberg

Old age is second childhood.

— Aristophanes

Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Old age is as forgetful as youth, and more incorrigible; it displays the same inattentiveness to conditions; its memory becomes self-repeating and degenerates into…

— George Santayana

Old age is but a second childhood.

— Aristophanes

“I am old, but the word to me means familiar, comfortable. Accustomed after long and venerable use. Not dilapidated and useless.”

— Sherwood Smith

I guess I'm getting to the age where a lot of other people my age have real jobs, and when they're hard-up they refer…

— Mike Patton

a process of aging had taken place in him that was so rapid and critical that soon he was being treated as one of…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Sometimes [the expression] old age has a kind of harrowing beauty. But elderly - ugh!

— Dodie Smith

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

I've been doing old-people things since I was a child.

— Martha Plimpton

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

I'm old-fashioned beyond my years.

— Muriel Spark