Benjamin Franklin Quotes About Aging

• I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Funny, Good Morning, Have A Good Day

• Life's Tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Life, Wise, Wisdom

• Beware of the young doctor and the old barber.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Funny, Life, Crazy

  Benjamin Franklin (2012). “Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.27, Courier Corporation

• All would live long, but none would be old.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Long, Age, Would Be

  Poor Richard's Almanack, Sept. 1749

• Wish not so much to live long as to live well.

  Benjamin Franklin

  4th Of July, Long, Wish

  Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.45, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

• Fear not death; for the sooner we die, the longer shall we be immortal.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Death, Age, Aging

  "Poor Richard's Almanack".

• An old young man, will be a young old man.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Time, Men, Age

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, p.12, Nayika Publishing

• Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Money, Aging, Rich

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.246, Barnes & Noble Publishing

• If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Happiness, Time, Life Is Short

• I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Funny, Weight Loss, Mind

• Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Funny, Time, Age

  Benjamin Franklin (1963). “The Autobiography, and Other Writings: With Selections from Poor Richard's Almanac and Papers Relating to the Junto”

• I am in the prime of senility.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Age, Aging, Prime

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