Old age Quotes

"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

"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

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

Bill Bryson, Writer

"Our old age was in some respects the happiest period of life"

Charles Eastman, Author

"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

"Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair"

Ira Gershwin, Musician

"No sociologist should think himself too good, even in his old age, to make tens of thousands of quite trivial computations in his head and perhaps for months at a time"

Max Weber, Economist

"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"

Wyndham Lewis, Author

"Those who are born of parents broken with old age, or of such as are not yet ripe or are too young, or of drunkards, soft or effeminate men, want a great and liberal ingenuity or wit"

Thomas Willis, Scientist

"Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age"

Lactantius, Author

"There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow"

Fay Weldon, Novelist

"I think repeating yourself is a sign of old age, telling the same joke again and again. Especially if they're jokes that don't make people laugh"

Simon Le Bon, Musician

"He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled"

Gene Fowler, Journalist

"In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us"

Beverly Sills, Musician

"While I had often said that I wanted to die in bed, what I really meant was that in my old age I wanted to be stepped on by an elephant while making love"

Roger Zelazny, Writer

"Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age"

Sinclair Lewis, Novelist

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

Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Author

"Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years"

Ausonius, Poet

"Old age is, so to speak, the sanctuary of ills: they all take refuge in it"

Antiphanes, Writer

"Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending"

Anne Bradstreet, Poet

"A man's character never changes radically from youth to old age. What happens is that circumstances bring out characteristics which have not been obvious to the superficial observer"

Hesketh Pearson, Actor

"I think my fans will follow me into our combined old age. Real musicians and real fans stay together for a long, long time"

Bonnie Raitt, Musician

"If we are strong, and have faith in life and its richness of surprises, and hold the rudder steadily in our hands. I am sure we will sail into quiet and pleasent waters for our old age"

Freya Stark, Writer

"The answer to old age is to keep one's mind busy and to go on with one's life as if it were interminable. I always admired Chekhov for building a new house when he was dying of tuberculosis"

Leon Edel, Critic

"I don't tap dance, and I don't think you can learn to tap dance in three weeks at my ripe old age"

Huey Lewis, Musician

"The crucial task of old age is balance: keeping just well enough, just brave enough, just gay and interested and starkly honest enough to remain a sentient human being"

Florida Scott-Maxwell, Writer

"There has been enough suffering in our country, there has been enough of children whose dreams die before they have a chance to grow and there has been enough of our elders who, having served their nation, are forced into indignity in their old age"

John Agyekum Kufuor, Statesman

"In America, people rarely stay in the town where they grew up, rarely stay in close proximity to their parents throughout their lives. You rarely find parents in their old age being taken care of by their children"

Robert Benton, Director

"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"

Anne Tyler, Novelist

"Besides, wouldn't it be wonderful if no one ever had to worry about the random cruelty of fatal illness or the woes of old age attacking them or their loved ones?"

Joan D. Vinge, Author

"Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death"

Edith Wharton, Author

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

Dorothy Dix, Journalist

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