Aging Quote by Ogden Nash

The old men know when an old man dies.

— Ogden Nash

Old men go to death; but death comes to young men.

— Proverb

Old men's prayers for death are lying prayers, in which they abuse old age and long extent of life. But when death draws near,…

— Euripides

Old age is the supreme evil, for it deprives man of all pleasures while allowing his appetites to remain, and it brings with it…

— Giacomo Leopardi

Old men go to Death, Death comes to Young men.

— George Herbert

Death is not evil, for it frees man from all ills and takes away his desires along with desire's rewards. Old age is the…

— Giacomo Leopardi

Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.

— Anita Brookner

While old men feel sensibly enough their own advance in years, they do not sufficiently recollect it in those whom they have seenyoung.

— Thomas Jefferson

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

— George S. Patton

I would not say that old men grow wise, for men never grow wise; and many old men retain a very attractive childishness and…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Old men grasp more at life than babies, and leave it with a much worse grace than young people. It is because all their…

— Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.

— Herman Melville