Old Age
See also: Age
The Golden Years
All of a sudden, I'm older than my parents were when I thought they were old Lois Wyse
The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of their blood Logan Pearsall Smith
Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old Washington Irving
The whiter my hair becomes, the more ready people are to believe what I say Bertrand Russell
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 - devotion to individuals, to groups or to causes, social, political, intellectual or creative work Simone de Beauvoir
You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing. Marie Stopes
To grow old is to move from passion to compassion Albert Camus
To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am Bernard M. Baruch
You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake Bob Hope
The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom H.L. Mencken
You know you're growing old when [almost] everything hurts, and what doesn't hurt doesn't work Hy Gardner
The older you get the stronger the wind gets - and it's always in your face Jack Nicklaus
It's nice to be here. When you're 99 years old, it's nice to be anyplace. George Burns
I'm Not as Old as I Used to Be Frances Weaver (book title)
To honor an old man is showing respect to God Muhammad
The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully Eric Hoffer
I'm now at the age where I've got to prove that I'm just as good as I never was Rex Harrison
Love, the last defense against old age - the last, and for those whose good fortune it is to have some one person to care for, or who have learned the infinitely difficult art of loving all their neighbors, the best Aldous Huxley
My diseases are an asthma and a dropsy, and what is less curable, seventy-five Samuel Johnson
The older we get the more we seem to think that everything was better in the past Junichiro Tanizaki
I am old enough to tell the truth. It is one of the privlidges of age. Georges Clemenceau
Getting old ain't for sissies Bette Davis
Considering the alternative, it's not too bad at all Maurice Chevalier
A person is not old until regrets take the place of hopes and plans Scott Nearing
After the age of eighty, all contemporaries are friends Madame de Dino
Oh to be seventy again Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Old age takes away from us what we have inherited and gives us what we have earned Gerald Brenan
Old people are fond of giving good advice; it consoles them for no longer being capable of setting a bad example La Rouchefoucauld
You know you're getting old when you've got money to burn, but the fire's gone out Hy Gardner
I want to die young at a ripe old age Ashley Montagu
First you are young; then you are middle-aged; then you age old; then you are wonderful Lady Diana Cooper
Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been Mark Twain
No one is so old as to think he cannot live one more year Cicero
Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative Maurice Chevalier
Nobody loves life like an old man Sophocles
Gray hair is God's graffiti Bill Cosby