Top 1200 Old Age Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

About the only good thing you can say about old age is, it's better than being dead!

Life grows darker as we go on, till only one pure light is left shining on it; and that is faith. Old age, like solitude and sorrow, has its revelations.

We who are old know that age is more than a disability. It is an intense and varied experience, almost beyond our capacity at times, but something to be carried high.

This problem - it is age old. To do what is right and save the day without destroying the very thing the day is lived for.

Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife; This simple boon I beg of Fate - A thousand years of Middle Life.

The young blush much more freely than the old but not during infancy, which is remarkable, as we know that infants at a very early age redden from passion.

Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

Alas, Postumus, the fleeting years slip by, nor will piety give any stay to wrinkles and pressing old age and untamable death.

Even if you live to be a ripe old age, you live long enough to see the people you love pass away.

Pleasure has its time; so too, has wisdom. Make love in thy youth, and in old age attend to thy salvation.

On the day I swore to uphold the Hippocratic oath, the small hairs on the back of my neck stood up as I waited for lightning to strike. Who was I, vowing calmly among all these necktied young men to steal life out of nature's jaws, every old time we got half a chance and a paycheck?... I could not accept the contract: that every child born human upon this earth comes with a guarantee of perfect health and old age clutched in its small fist.

Old people are considered worthless fuddy-duddies and often overlooked, which makes them sink into loneliness. I noticed it as soon as I started to age.

I worked hard in gymnastics since the time I was six years old until I retired at 23 years of age.

I do not believe in old age. I do not believe in getting tired.

The person who works and is never bored is never old. Work and interest in worthwhile things are the best remedy for age.

Indeed, the idea that doubt can be heroic, if it is locked into a structure as grand as that of the paintings of Cezanne's old age, is one of the keys to our century. A touchstone of modernity itself.

The old division of Left versus Right is dead. In the Internet age, it's about citizens versus parliamentary relics.

Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so.

Infinity is almost impossible for an eight-year-old to grasp. It's an inquiring age, and you're beginning to shape your thoughts and questions about life in general at that stage.

A hundred things are done today in the divine name of Youth, that if they showed their true colors would be seen by rights to belong rather to old age.

Whether we live to a vigorous old age lies not so much in our stars or in our genes but in ourselves.

Time, in general, has always been a central obsession of mine - what it does to people, how it can constitute a plot all on its own. So naturally, I am interested in old age.

When I was at school, I was in choirs more than anything else, from a very young age, about 9 years old. And then I started taking drum lessons.

Most 'Monty Python' fans are, of course, baby boomers, who have long been a nostalgic lot and are growing more so as they totter toward old age.

I play really bad punk rock guitar. Age-old friends; it's just great hanging out with your mates, causing havoc.

When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.

I don't feel like a 27-year-old; I feel I am way mature than someone that age.

I never believe it when people claim they knew they wanted to be actors when they were 4 or 5 years old. I think that's rubbish. When you're that age, you just like showing off.

Americans spend more money on Botox, face lifts and tummy tucks than on the age-old scourges of polio, small pox and malaria.

The major thing I'm afraid of is being 65 and saying, 'Gee, I wish I had done this and that, and that.' I want to face old age knowing I've tried all I wanted to try.

I was kind of advanced for my age, just because I started early, when I was maybe 6 or 7 years old. And my dad always had me playing with older groups.

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

That fair face will as years roll on lose its beauty, and old age will bring its wrinkles to the brow.

Contrary to age-old prejudices, the wealth of the rich is not the cause of the poverty of the poor, but helps to alleviate that poverty.

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

Everything's possible when you're seven years old." She sighed. "But then you hit an age where you decide it's cooler not to believe in anything at all. [...] It's called being grown-up.

Old friends, like old shoes, are comfortable. But old shoes, unlike old friends, tend not to be supportive: it is easier to stumble and sprain an ankle while wearing a pair of old shoes than it is in new shoes, with their less yielding leather.

The Guide sang: The new age, the new art, the new ethic and thought, And fools crying, Because it has begun It will continue as it has begun! The wheel runs fast, therefore the wheel will run Faster for ever, The old age is done, We have new lights and see without the sun. (Though they lay flat the mountains and dry up the sea, Wilt thou yet change, as though God were a god?)

You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.

Thus Carol hit upon the tragedy of old age, which is not that it is less vigorous than youth, but that it is not needed by youth.

The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again. In one Age, called the Third Age by some, an Age yet to come, an Age long past, a wind rose in the Mountains of Mist. The wind was not the beginning. There are neither beginnings nor endings to the turning of the Wheel of Time. But it was a beginning.

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.

Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy.

I'm a trained fine artist. I went to art school from the time I was 5 years old. I was, like, a prodigy out of Chicago. I'd been in national competitions from the age of 14.

I don't care about age very much. I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life.

'Apocalypse Now' was my craziest experience ever. I was 14 years old, and I'd lied about my age to get the role. I haven't had another film top it.

I think it's strange when people my age and younger get surgery. Somebody's got to play old people.

The age factor means nothing to me. I'm old enough to know my limitations and I'm young enough to exceed them.

The price of indulging yourself in your youth in the things you cannot afford is poverty and dependence in your old age.

This American right to bear arms with, practically, a Muslim fierceness, sometimes seems as if it must be age-old, an ancient tradition from a tenacious frontier holdover.

Take care that old age does not wrinkle your spirit even more than your face.

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.

Taking jobs to build up your resume is the same as saving up sex for old age.

A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.

The age factor means nothing to me. I'm old enough to know my limitations and I'm young enough to exceed them.

In every age poets and social reformers have tried to stimulate the people of their own time to a nobler life by enchanting stories of the virtues of the heroes of old.

Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife, This simple boon I beg of Fate - A thousand years of Middle Life.

People don't die of old age, they die of neglect.

The current transgender movement is composed of a great number of factions, divided by those old favorites of class, race, age, language, region, and nationality.

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