Old Age Quotes
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Education is the best provision for old age.
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There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.
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Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
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It is really, really wonderful that in your old age you are protected by specialists who understand your problems and sort them out for you. Well, isn't that what we all need?
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Old age is not a disease - it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.
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What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.
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The wonderful thing about modern medicine is that so many of these complaints that used to signify old age and decline can be coped with.
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I think God just died of old age. And, when I realized that he wasn't any more, it didn't shock me. It seemed natural and right!
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Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.
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When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
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The crucial task of old age is balance: keeping just well enough, just brave enough, just gay and interested and starkly honest enough to remain a sentient human being.
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One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up.
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I only seek in my old age to perfect that which I had not before thoroughly learned in my youth, because my sins were a hindrance to me.
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All diseases run into one, old age.
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How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
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There's to be a film about my life. I can give this as an exclusive now. Meryl Streep was offered the part but, no, I wanted Kate Winslet. Kylie Minogue is playing me in middle age. In old age, I'm not sure who's going to play me. I haven't got there yet. Perhaps Cate Blanchett. Or Jacki Weaver.
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The fear of old age is something that one feels when they're younger. Once you get to being old, you're already there, so you don't even think about it anymore.
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Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
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To be rejected on account of old age may or may not feel the same as being rejected on the basis of race or sex. But it is clearly unjust and dehumanizing, and the law should take it more seriously than it does.
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Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
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In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.
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The gods bestowed on Max the gift of perpetual old age.
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The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.
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Nobody loves the light like the blind man.
