Old Age Quotes - Page 30

• We devote the activity of our youth to revelry and the decrepitude of our old age to repentance: and we finish the farce by bequeathing our dead bodies to the chancel, which when living, we interdicted from the church.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Age, Church, Farce

  Charles Caleb Colton (1866). “Lacon: or, Many things in few words”, p.343

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• Short is the life of those who possess great accomplishments, and seldom do they reach a good old age. Whatever thou lovest, pray that thou mayest not set too high a value on it.

  Martial

  Accomplishment, Age, Praying

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• keep moving. It's hard for old age to hit a moving target.

  Joan Rivers

  Moving, Age, Target

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• old age' is always ten years more than we are.

  Joan Rivers

  Years, Age, Ten

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• We dread old age, which are not sure of being able to attain.
  [Fr., L'on craint la vieillesse, que l'on n'est pas sur de pouvoir atteindre.]

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Age, Able, Not Sure

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• Too great carelessness, equally with excess in dress, multiplies the wrinkles of old age, and makes its decay still more conspicuous.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Wrinkles, Age, Dresses

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• A man is thirty years old before he has any settled thoughts of his fortune; it is not completed before fifty. He falls to building in his old age, and dies by the time his house is in a condition to be painted and glazed.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Fall, Men, Years

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• When we are young we lay up for old age; when we are old we save for death.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Age, Young, Prudence

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• Rich women need not fear old age; their gold can always create about them any feelings necessary to their happiness.

  Honore de Balzac

  Money, Feelings, Age

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• [On Malcolm Muggeridge:] He thinks he was knocked off his horse by God, like St. Paul on the road to Damascus. His critics think he simply fell off it from old age.

  Katharine Whitehorn

  Horse, Thinking, Age

  Katharine Whitehorn (1981). “View from a Column”

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• all the small squalors of the body, known only to oneself, insignificant in youth, easily dismissed, in old age became dominant and entered into fulfilment of the tyranny they had always threatened.

  Vita Sackville-West

  Age, Body, Youth

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• The public, as a whole, finds reassurance in longevity, and, after the necessary interlude of reaction, is disposed to recognize extreme old age as a sign of excellence. The long-liver has triumphed over at least one of man's initial handicaps: the brevity of life.

  Vita Sackville-West

  Men, Long, Excellence

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• By my rambling digressions I perceive myself to be growing old.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Age, Rambling, Growing

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• It must become a right of every person to die of old age. And if we secure this right for ourselves, we can, coincidentally, assure it for the planet.

  Alice Walker

  Age, Planets, Persons

  Alice Walker (2013). “The Alice Walker Collection: Non-Fiction”, p.207, Hachette UK

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• I didn't fear old age. I was just becoming increasingly aware of the fact that the only people who said old age was beautiful were usually twenty-three years old.

  Erma Bombeck

  Beautiful, Years, People

  Erma Bombeck (1996). “Four of a Kind: A Suburban Field Guide”, Bbs Publishing Corporation

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• The youth is better than the old age of friendship.

  William Hazlitt

  Friendship, Age, Youth

  William Hazlitt (1871). “The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt”, p.493

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• Old age is by nature rather talkative.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Age, Talkative

  Marcus Tullius Cicero, Cyrus R. Edmonds (1863). “Three Books of Offices; Or, Moral Duties: Also His Cato Major, an Essay on Old Age; Laelius, an Essay on Friendship; Paradoxes; Scipio's Dream; and Letter to Quintus on the Duties of a Magistrate. Literally Translated, with Notes, Designed to Exhibit a Comparative View of the Opinions of Cicero, and Those of Modern Moralists and Ethical Philosophers”, p.242

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• I am much beholden to old age, which has increased my eagerness for conversation in proportion as it has lessened my appetites of hunger and thirst.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Age, Hunger And Thirst, Proportion

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• 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.

  Will Durant

  Stress, Discovery, Order

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

  Friedrich Durrenmatt

  Birthday, Stupid, Dumb

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• Colleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges.

  Bob Dylan

  Graduation, Home, College

  Bob Dylan (1995). “The fiddler now upspoke: a collection of Bob Dylan's interviews, press conferences and the like from throughout the masters career”

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• The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Life, Death, Time

  Desiderius Erasmus (1986). “Literary and Educational Writings: Panegyricus and Philippum Austriaeducem. Moriae encomium. Dialogus Julius exclusus e coelis. Institutio principis christiani. Querela pacis”

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• As you get older, the pickings get slimmer, but the people don't.

  Carrie Fisher

  Funny, Sarcasm, People

  Carrie Fisher (2012). “Shockaholic”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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• Old age is a shipwreck.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Birthday, Age, Aging

  Charles de Gaulle (1964). “The complete war memoirs of Charles de Gaulle”

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• Why do people talk of the horrors of old age? It's great. I feel like a fine old car with the parts gradually wearing out, but I'm not complaining,... Those who find growing old terrible are people who haven't done what they wanted with their lives.

  Martha Gellhorn

  Car, People, Age

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