Famous Old Age Quotes - Famous Quotes about Old Age
A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.
- Maurice Chevalier
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A life of peace, purity, and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age.
- Cicero
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A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.
- Jean Rostand
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A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, 'At my age, I don't even buy green bananas'.
- Claude Pepper
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A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.
- Cicero
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After the age of 80, everything reminds you of something else.
- Lowell Thomas
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Age considers; youth ventures.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so.
- Tryon Edwards
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Age does not diminish the extreme disappointment of having a scoop of ice cream fall from the cone.
- Jim Fiebig
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Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.
- Tom Stoppard
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Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
- Mark Twain
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Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.
- Don Marquis
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Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese.
- Billie Burke
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Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
- Jack Benny
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Age seldom arrives smoothly or quickly. It's more often a succession of jerks.
- Jean Rhys
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Age to me means nothing. I can't get old; I'm working. I was old when I was twenty-one and out of work. As long as you're working, you stay young. When I'm in front of an audience, all that love and vitality sweeps over me and I forget my age.
- George Burns
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Age--that period of life in which we compound for the vices that we still cherish by reviling those that we no longer have the enterprise to commit.
- Ambrose Bierce
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Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.
- Albert Camus
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All diseases run into one, old age.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
- Henry Ford
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As for me, except for an occasional heart attack, I feel as young as I ever did.
- Robert Benchley
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As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.
- Cicero
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As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost.
- Margaret Mead
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As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can't remember the other two...
- Norman Wisdom
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At 20 years of age the will reigns; at 30 the wit; at 40 the judgment.
- Benjamin Franklin
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At my age flowers scare me.
- George Burns
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At my age I do what Mark Twain did. I get my daily paper, look at the obituaries page and if I'm not there I carry on as usual.
- Patrick Moore
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At times is it seems that I am living my life backward, and that at the approach of old age my real youth will begin. My soul was born covered with wrinkles-wrinkles that my ancestors and parents most assiduously put there and that I had the greatest trouble removing.
- Andre Gide
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Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
- Aristotle
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Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him.
- George Santayana
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By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.
- Bill Vaughan
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Children are a great comfort in your old age -- and they help you reach it faster, too.
- Lionel Kauffman
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Every man over forty is a scoundrel.
- George Bernard Shaw
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Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.
- Elvis Presley
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Everybody wants to live forever, but nobody wants to grow old.
- Jonathan Swift
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Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
- Victor Hugo
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Gray hair is God's graffiti.
- Bill Cosby
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Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.
- Robert Browning
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Growing old is compulsory - growing up is optional.
- Bob Monkhouse
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Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form.
- André Maurois
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He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled.
- Gene Fowler
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He's so old that when he orders a three-minute egg, they ask for the money up front.
- Milton Berle
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How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
- C. S. Lewis
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How old would you be if you didn't know how old you was?
- Satchel Paige
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How young can you die of old age?
- Steven Wright
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I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty.
- George Burns
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I didn't get old on purpose, it just happened. If you're lucky, it could happen to you.
- Andy Rooney
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I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.
- T. S. Eliot
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I don't feel old. I don't feel anything till noon. That's when it's time for my nap.
- Bob Hope
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I don't want to be the oldest performer in captivity... I don't want to look like a little old man dancing out there.
- Fred Astaire
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I feel old when I see mousse in my opponent's hair.
- Andre Agassi
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I find that a man is as old as his work. If his work keeps him from moving forward, he will look forward with the work.
- William Ernest Hocking
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I have to be careful to get out before I become the grotesque caricature of a hatchet-faced woman with big knockers. -- (on growing old in Hollywood, March 2001, More Magazine)
- Jamie Lee Curtis
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I refuse to admit I'm more than fifty-two, even if that does make my sons illegitimate.
- Nancy Astor
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I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity.
- Tom Stoppard
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I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.
- Lauren Bacall
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I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.
- William Shakespeare
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I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
- Francis Bacon
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I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I'm not old yet!
- Leo Rosten
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I wouldn't mind being dead—it would be something new. (at age 100)
- Estelle Winwood
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I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.
- Charles Lamb
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I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the last one left.
- George Burns
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I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.
- Henri Frederic Amiel
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I'm so old they've cancelled my blood type.
- Bob Hope
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I've only got one wrinkle and I'm sitting on it.
- Jeanne Calment
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If I'd known I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself.
- Eubie Blake
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If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.
- James A. Garfield
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If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.
- George Burns
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In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived.
- Knut Hamsun
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In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.
- Pope Paul VI
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In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.
- Beverly Sills
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It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.
- Emily Carr
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It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.
- Brigitte Bardot
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It takes a long time to become young.
- Pablo Picasso
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It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem -and in my esteem age is not estimable.
- Anatole France
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Let others hail the rising sun:
I bow to that whose course is run
- David Garrick
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Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature.
- Harold Coffin
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Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.
- Don Marquis
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Middle Age is when your age starts to show around your middle.
- Bob Hope
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Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.
- Doris Day
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More than anything else, I'd like to be an old man with a good face, like Hitchcock or Picasso.
- Sean Connery
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Nice to be here? At my age it's nice to be anywhere.
- George Burns
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No man is ever old enough to know better.
- Holbrook Jackson
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No man loves life like him that's growing old.
- Sophocles
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No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.
- Oscar Wilde
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None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.
- Henry David Thoreau
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Oh, to be seventy again!
- Georges Clemenceau
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Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.
- Ira Gershwin
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Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.
- Emily Dickinson
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Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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Old age has got to start creeping up on me one day soon, and frankly I'm very scared. I don't want to be old. I've always felt so young. And I want to stay that way.
- David Niven
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Old age is a shipwreck.
- Charles de Gaulle
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Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.
- Louis Kronenberger
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Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.
- Andre Maurois
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Old age is fifteen years older than I am.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.
- Golda Meir
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Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
- Theodore Roosevelt
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Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.
- James Thurber
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Old age is when you resent the swimsuit issue of Sports Illustrated because there are fewer articles to read.
- George Burns
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Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.
- Maurice Chevalier
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Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.
- Confucius
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Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.
- John Quincy Adams
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One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.
- Dorothy Canfield Fisher
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Only the young die good.
- Cynic's Calendar
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Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.
- Dwight L. Moody
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So people think I'm lying about my age all the time? It's the records that are wrong. I've never told anyone how old I am. The minute they ask me, I say 'That's none of your business.' So that means I've never once lied about my age. Now that's true!
- Calista Flockhart
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Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty - they merely move it from their faces into their hearts.
- Martin Buxbaum
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Talk about getting old. I was getting dressed and a peeping tom looked in the window, took a look and pulled down the shade.
- Joan Rivers
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The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.
- Doug Larson
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The answer to old age is to keep one's mind busy and to go on with one's life as if it were interminable. I always admired Chekhov for building a new house when he was dying of tuberculosis.
- Leon Edel
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The best way to get most husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they're too old to do it.
- Anne Bancroft
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The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood.
- Logan P. Smith
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The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.
- Doris Lessing
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The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
- H. L. Mencken
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The really frightening thing about middle age is knowing you'll grow out of it.
- Doris Day
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The trick is growing up without growing old.
- Casey Stengel
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The ultimate indignity is to be given a bedpan by a stranger who calls you by your first name.
- Maggie Kuhn
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The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.
- Thomas Hardy
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The whole business of marshalling one's energies becomes more and more important as one grows older.
- Hume Cronyn
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The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain.
- Chinese Proverb
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There is absolutely nothing to be said in favour of growing old. There ought to be leglislation against it.
- Patrick Moore
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There is still no cure for the common birthday.
- John Glenn
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There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age - I missed it coming and going.
- J. B. Priestly
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Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.
- Dorothy Canfield Fisher
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To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
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To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years, and take rank, not as a prophet, but as an unteachable brat, well birched and none the wiser.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
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To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.
- Amos Bronson Alcott
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To me - old age is always ten years older than I am.
- John Burroughs
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To me old age is always fifteen years older than I am.
- Bernard Baruch
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To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.
- Alan Bleasdale
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We pay when old for the excesses of youth.
- J. B. Priestley
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We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.
- Pearl S. Buck
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We've put more effort into helping folks reach old age than into helping them enjoy it.
- Frank A. Clark
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What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
- Voltaire
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Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.
- Sinclair Lewis
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When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
- Muriel Spark
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When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.
- Victor Hugo
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When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick.
- George Burns
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When I was young I was called a rugged individualist. When I was in my fifties I was considered eccentric. Here I am doing and saying the same things I did then and I'm labeled senile. (Just you and me Kid - 1979)
- George Burns
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When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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When we grow old, there can only be one regret—not to have given enough of ourselves.
- Eleonora Duse
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When you become senile, you won't know it.
- Bill Cosby
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Whenever the talk turns to age, I say I am 49 plus VAT. (The Mail on Sunday, June 1999)
- Lionel Blair
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While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.
- Amos Bronson Alcott
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Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.
- Mark Twain
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You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.
- Woody Allen
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You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.
- George Burns
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You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.
- Judith Viorst
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You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.
- Harrison Ford
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You know you're getting old when everything hurts. And what doesn't hurt doesn't work.
- Hy Gardner
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You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
- Bob Hope
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You know, I don't mind dying. The thing that pisses me off is that I won't get to be an old man. I was looking forward to that.
- Robert Lansing
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Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing.
- Aristotle
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Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.
- Stanislaw Lec
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Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.
- Anne Bradstreet
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[Age] is a matter of feeling, not of years.
- George William Curtis
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