Old Age Quotes
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Good work and joyous play go hand in hand. When play stops, old age begins. Play keeps you from taking life too seriously.
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Just as old age is creeping on space, And clouds come o'er the sunset of our day, They kindly leave us, though not quite alone, But in good company--the gout or stone.
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Old age takes away from us what we have inherited and gives us what we have earned.
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In my old age there is a coming into flower. My body wanes; my mind waxes.
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Whether we live to a vigorous old age lies not so much in our stars or in our genes but in ourselves.
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Very odd, old age. Always knew it would happen, if I was lucky. I just didn't expect it so soon.
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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.
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Artists of all sorts remain youthful for so long, and in many cases attain a grand old age. The explanation is that they live in an almost permanent condition of stimulation and excitement.
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The only real time as far as Buddhism is concerned is right now. Right now there is no old age or death because old age and death are descriptions of things as they are now when we compare them to things as they used to be.
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Old age begins at the moment when a person has lost his ability to learn.
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The fires of youth are not dead in old age... only banked down.
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Old age is the Outpatient's Dept of purgatory.
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For although we know that the years pass, that youth gives way to old age, that fortunes and thrones crumble (even the most solid among them) and that fame is transitory, the manner in which—by means of a sort of snapshot—we take cognisance of this moving universe whirled along by Time, has the contrary effect of immobilising it.
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Old age is better for women than for men. First of all, they have less far to fall, since their lives are more mediocre than those of most men.
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Old age is no place for sissies.
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I didn't start the business to make a pile of money. I did it to preserve myself for old age.
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There is only one solution if old age is not to be an absurd parody of our former life, and that is to go on pursuing ends that give our existence a meaning.
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One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
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When intelligent and sensible people despise knowledge in their old age, it is only because they have asked too much of it and of themselves.
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It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.
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Old age is just a record of one's whole life.
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In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.
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Never have I enjoyed youth so thoroughly as I have in my old age.
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So here I sit in the early candle-light of old age-I and my book-casting backward glances over out traveled road.
