Old age Quotes

"A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight"

Robertson Davies, Novelist

"Just call me a family man and an actor who digs his whole scene, side interests and all. Just say I feel mighty good at the ripe old age of 27"

Bobby Darin, Musician

"Either God is alive, in which case he'll deal with us as he sees fit. Or he is dead, in which case he was never alive, it being unlikely that he died of old age"

John Ralston Saul, Author

"Pretend to be dumb, that's the only way to reach old age"

Friedrich Durrenmatt, Author

"Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death"

Herman Melville, Novelist

"Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a minimum"

Thomas Szasz, Psychologist

"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, Writer

"But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave"

William Wordsworth, Poet

"Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age"

Hesiod, Poet

"The public has lost faith in the ability of Social Security and Medicare to provide for old age. They've lost faith in the banking system and in conventional medical insurance"

Ron Chernow, Author

"Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age"

George Sand, Novelist

"Nevertheless, whether in occurrences lasting days, hours or mere minutes at a time, I have experienced happiness often, and have had brief encounters with it in my later years, even in old age"

Herman Hesse, Author

"To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age"

Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Poet

"Women would be disproportionately affected by the privatization of social security. It is one of the most important safety nets for American women in old age, or in times of disability, to insure financial income for their families"

Barbara Mikulski, Politician

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

Golda Meir, Leader

"To me - old age is always ten years older than I am"

John Burroughs, Author

"Maybe I'll be a feminist in my old age"

Bjork, Musician

"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, Author

"Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked"

Lawrence Durrell, Writer

"The memories of a man in his old age, are the deeds of a man in his prime"

Pink Floyd, Musician

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

Louis Kronenberger, Critic

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

Lydia M. Child, Activist

"I consider the 70s to be the youth of old age. So all you women out there who are afraid of getting older, just keep your orgasms in place, eat a lot of vegetables, take exercise, and you'll be fine"

Betty Dodson, Educator

"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, Clergyman

"One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave"

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, Novelist

"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!"

Frances Farmer, Actress

"I have always paid income tax. I object only when it reaches a stage when I am threatened with having nothing left for my old age - which is due to start next Tuesday or Wednesday"

Noel Coward, Playwright

"Most women are indulgent of themselves. This is a mistake. It should be only the reward of old age"

Anna Held, Entertainer

"I was already devouring literature and I was the ripe old age of 15 when I decided to be an actor. I just thought plays were the most fantastic way of expressing life. I thought I'd discovered Shakespeare - 'hey, there's a new guy in town, don't know if anyone's read him.' I was just excited about the whole thing, from day one"

Chiwetel Ejiofor, Actor

"At the age of 18 all young poets are sure they will be dead at 21 - of old age"

Marguerite Young, Author

"A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality"

Pindar, Poet

"Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier years"

Charlotte Bronte, Novelist

"We've put more effort into helping folks reach old age than into helping them enjoy it"

Frank Howard Clark, Writer

"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, Actor

"When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality"

Anne Louise Germaine de Stael, Author

"What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease"

Jean Paul, Author

"A newspaper is lumber made malleable. It is ink made into words and pictures. It is conceived, born, grows up and dies of old age in a day"

Jim Bishop, Journalist

"As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity"

Jean Paul, Author

"There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age"

Bill Bryson, Writer

"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, Clergyman

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