OLD AGE QUOTES VI

quotations about old age

Old Age quote

You know you're old if they have discontinued your blood type.

PHYLLIS DILLER

attributed, Women Know Everything!: 3,241 Quips, Quotes & Brilliant Remarks

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All would live long, but none would be old.

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Poor Richard's Almanack, 1749

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The only real change in life comes with the consciousness of old age.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought

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Well I say old age is no barrier to intimacy, to sexuality, to adulthood. We're often encouraged to talk about death and dying -- and that's important. But we should also talk about living.

NIEVES MURRAY

"Intimacy and Old Age", Illawarra Mercury, August 25, 2016


Nothing makes you look older than attempting to look young.

KARL LAGERFELD

The Telegraph, May 12, 2014

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Old age diminishes our strength; it takes away our pleasures one after the other; it withers the soul as well as the body; it renders adventure and friendship difficult; and finally it is shadowed by thoughts of death.

ANDRÉ MAUROIS

An Art of Living

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The most valuable result of many years is a nicely balanced mind instinctively heedful of various errors.

WALTER BAGEHOT

Literary Studies

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Just like those who are incurably ill, the aged know everything about their dying except exactly when.

PHILIP ROTH

The Facts: A Novelist's Autobiography

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People often say to themselves in life that they should avoid a variety of occupation, and, more particularly, be the less willing to enter upon new work the older they grow. But it is easy to talk, easy to give advice to oneself and others. To grow old is itself to enter upon a new business; all the circumstances change, and a man must either cease acting altogether, or willingly and consciously take over the new rôle.

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe

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Growing old is no more than a bad habit a busy man has no time to form.

ANDRÉ MAUROIS

An Art of Living

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You know you're getting older when you notice that more and more history questions happened in your lifetime!

TOM WILSON

Ziggy, July 3, 1999

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Age overtakes us all;
Our temples first; then on o'er cheek and chin,
Slowly and surely, creep the frosts of Time.
Up and do somewhat, ere thy limbs are sere.

THEOCRITUS

"The Love of Thyonichus"

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The smile upon the old man's lips, like the last rays of the setting sun, pierces the heart with a sweet and sad emotion. There is still a ray, there is still a smile; but they may be the last.

MADAME SWETCHINE

"Airelles", The Writings of Madame Swetchine

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If I am to tell you how to grow old gracefully, I must tell you at the beginning of life; for no man can grow old gracefully unless he begins early.

LYMAN ABBOTT

Problems of Life: Selections from the Writings of Rev. Lyman Abbott

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The counsels of the old, like the winter sun, shine, but give no heat.

LUC DE CLAPIERS, MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES

Reflections and Maxims


Oh dear, this living and eating and growing old; these doubts and aches in the back, and want of interest in the Moon and Roses... Am I the person who used to wake in the middle of the night and laugh with the joy of living? Who worried about the existence of God, and danced with young ladies till long after daybreak? Who sang "Auld Lang Syne" and howled with sentiment, and more than once gazed at the summer stars through a blur of great, romantic tears?

LOGAN PEARSALL SMITH

Trivia

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Maybe age is kinder to us than we think. With my bad eyes, I can't see how bad I look, and with my rotten memory, I have a good excuse for getting out of a lot of stuff.

ERMA BOMBECK

Family: The Ties that Bind ... And Gag!

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This is old age! A slow and sure decay!
A tott'ring edifice, crusted with mould,
Failing in strength and beauty ev'rywhere!
Its vaults, and noble arches, choked with weeds!
Its casements dark, and chambers thick with dust
Its pillars bowed, or prostrate on the ground!

C. B. LANGSTON

"Old Age"


Old age is when the liver spots show through your gloves.

PHYLLIS DILLER

attributed, Funny Ladies: The Best Humor from America's Funniest Women

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Nobody tells you that old age is going to be s****y. It's a kind of conspiracy.

MIRIAM MARGOLYES

The Guardian, January 28, 2017