Old Age Quotes: Timeless Wisdom and Reflections (Page 2)

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

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

Herman Melville, Novelist

"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

"Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man"

Felix Frankfurter, Judge

"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

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

Emily Dickinson, 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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

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

Bjork, Musician

"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

"A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world"

Maurice Chevalier, Actor

"Those who have no hope pass their old age shrouded with an inward gloom"

Wilfred Owen, Soldier

"Old age is when the liver spots show through your gloves"

Phyllis Diller, Comedian

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

Lawrence Durrell, Writer

"Old age is the supreme evil, for it deprives man of all pleasures while allowing his appetites to remain, and it brings with it every possible sorrow. Yet men fear death and desire old age"

Giacomo Leopardi, Poet

"The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long"

A. J. P. Taylor, Historian

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

Muriel Spark, Novelist

"The New Age? It's just the old age stuck in a microwave oven for fifteen seconds"

James Randi, Entertainer

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