Best Old Age Quotes

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

At age 20, we worry about what others think of us. At age 40, we don’t care what they think of us. At age 60, we discover they haven’t been thinking of us at all.

Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.

Education is the best provision for old age.

But the world itself has no reason, and I can say so, I who have experienced it all, from the creation to the destruction.

As we grow older, our bodies get shorter and our anecdotes longer.

What you desire when young, you have in abundance when old.

The romance of life begins and ends with two blank pages. Age and extreme old age.

Pretend to be dumb, that’s the only way to reach old age.

In my old age I’ve come to find that if you respect other people, you feel better about yourself.

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 my ancestors and parents most assiduously put there and that I had the greatest trouble removing.

You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older.

Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.

Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age; and if you understand that old age has wisdom for its food, you will so conduct yourself in youth that your old age will not lack for nourishment.

O Time! consumer of all things; O envious age! thou dost destroy all things and devour all things with the relentless teeth of years, little by little in a slow death. Helen, when she looked in her mirror, seeing the withered wrinkles made in her face by old age, wept and wondered why she had twice been carried away.

In the days of thy youth seek to obtain that which shall compensate the losses of thy old age.

How many persons fancy they have experience simply because they have grown old!

To make good use of life, one should have in youth the experience of advanced years, and in old age the vigor of youth.

I have observed that, generally speaking, network sports announcers did not tend to live to a ripe old age. On the other hand, I had noticed that baseball announcers seemed to go right on forever. Bob Elson has been calling balls and strikes since the beginning of time. Harry Caray must have started with Abner Doubleday, and was still going strong.

The happy problem of our time – longer life.

I don’t have a dime left. I am dependent on my friends for food and a small old-age pension.

Feeling indisposed towards the evening, I drove up the ancient plains. The setting sun is unspeakably beautiful, Only it is approaching nightfall.

Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.

Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.

if you don’t want to get old, don’t mellow.

I am in the pitiable situation of feeling all the force of temptation without having the strength to succumb to it.

Singularity is only pardonable in old age and retirement; I may now be as singular as I please, but you may not.

All I can say, in answer to this kind queries [of friends] is that I have not the distemper called the Plague; but that I have allthe plagues of old age, and of a shattered carcase.

One of the small consolations of old age, if you are lucky, can be at least a partial recovery of innocence.

Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.

The counsels of old age give light without heat, like the sun in winter.

Well I started out on guitar, so it is still the mainstay of my music. But I have recently been working very hard on my piano, and it is coming along to the point where it is taking more of the spotlight. It has been my plan to be able to make music well into my old age, and sitting down seems like a good idea. Also, I don’t have to carry the piano on the road. I haven’t been playing the banjo much of late because of the difficulties of travelling with so much gear. But maybe I’ll bring it to Japan. It adds a different color to the musical palette.

A graceful and blessed old age must have three elements in it: a happy retrospect, a peaceful present, and an inspiring future. And old age cannot have either one of these three if the youth has been wasted and manhood has been misspent.