Old Age Quotes - Page 4

• Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.

  Don Marquis

  Funny, Birthday, Time

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• I intend to live forever, or die trying.

  Groucho Marx

  Death, Funny Life, Forever

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• Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Funny, Time, Elderly

  W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”

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• Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.

  Andre Maurois

  Birthday, Time, Hunting

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• As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

  H. L. Mencken

  Love, Hate, Heart

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• 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

  Death, Senior, Retirement

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• Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

  Anais Nin

  Love, Life, Age

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• The older you get the stronger the wind gets - and it's always in your face.

  Pablo Picasso

  Golf, Wind, Getting Older

  "International Herald Tribune" Newspaper (Paris), February 28, 1990.

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• No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.

  Oscar Wilde

  Birthday, Witty, Time

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.1389, GENERAL PRESS

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• Be eccentric now. Don't wait for old age to wear purple.

  Regina Brett

  Attitude, Purple, Waiting

  Regina Brett (2010). “Life's Little Detours: 50 Lessons to Find and Hold onto Happiness”, p.56, Hachette UK

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• Last scene of all that ends this strange, eventful history, is second childishness and mere oblivion. I am sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Lasts, Taste

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 7, l. 139

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• As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, / I must not look to have; but, in their stead, / Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour, breath, / Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not" (5.3.25-28).

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Troops, Looks

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 3, l. 22

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• Old Time, that greatest and longest established spinner of all!... his factory is a secret place, his work is noiseless, and his Hands are mutes.

  Charles Dickens

  Time, Secret Places, Hands

  Charles Dickens (1854). “Household Words: A weekly Journal, Volume 9”, p.290, Bradbury and Evans, printers

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• An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick

  William Butler Yeats

  Time, Men, Elderly

  "Sailing to Byzantium" l. 9 (1928)

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

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Time, Age, May

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.627, Library of America

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• The time to begin most things is ten years ago.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Time, Procrastination, Years

  "The Complete Neurotic's Notebook". Book by Mignon McLaughlin, 1981.

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• If you survive long enough, you're revered - rather like an old building.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Birthday, Old Buildings, Long

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It's an epitome of life. The first half of it consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Birthday, Getting Older

  "Mark Twain's Letters".

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

  Madame de Stael

  Aggravation, Age, Noble

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• Age only matters when one is aging. Now that I have arrived at a great age, I might as well be twenty.

  Pablo Picasso

  Age, Twenties, Might

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• I never feel age... If you have creative work you don't have age or time.

  Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

  Motivational, Creative, Age

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• I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.

  Agatha Christie

  Turning 50, Inspirational Birthday, 50th Birthday

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• Age to me means nothing. I can't get old; I'm working. I was old when I was twenty-one and out of work. As long as you're working, you stay young. When I'm in front of an audience, all that love and vitality sweeps over me and I forget my age.

  George Burns

  Love, Mean, Long

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• Anyone who stops learning is old — whether this happens at twenty or at eighty. Anyone who keeps on learning not only remains young but becomes constantly more valuable — regardless of physical capacity.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Encouraging, Education

  "Moving Forward".

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• I am an old man but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be, young, young all your life.

  Pablo Casals

  Integrity, Men, Age

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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