Old Age Quotes - Page 8

• The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you're learning you're not old.

  Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

  Teaching, Math, Nursing

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• The biggest surprise in a man's life is old age.

  Ben Kingsley

  Men, Age, Aging

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• I don't know how you feel about old age... but in my case I didn't even see it coming. It hit me from the rear.

  Phyllis Diller

  Age, How You Feel, Aging

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• Old age deprives the intelligent man only of qualities useless to wisdom.

  Joseph Joubert

  Intelligent, Men, Age

  "Pensees and Letters of Joseph Joubert". Book by Joseph Joubert, 1928.

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• For the complete life, the perfect pattern includes old age as well as youth and maturity.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Maturity, Perfect, Age

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

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• 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

  Death, House, Mind

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• Senescence begins
  And middle-age ends
  The day your descendants
  Outnumber your friends

  Ogden Nash

  Funny, Age, Ends

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• Old age is - a lot of crossed off names in an address book.

  Ronald Blythe

  Funny, Book, Names

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• No one is so old that he does not think he could live another year.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Thinking, Years, Age

  "Of Old Age". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero, book 5, section 15, reported in "Cicero on the Art of Growing Old", book by Herbert N. Couch (1959), p. 21,

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• Old men's prayers for death are lying prayers, in which they abuse old age and long extent of life. But when death draws near, not one is willing to die, and age no longer is a burden to them.

  Euripides

  Prayer, Lying, Men

  "Alcestis". Play by Euripides, 438 BCE.

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• Age overtakes us all; Our temples first; then on o'er cheek and chin, Slowly and surely, creep the frosts of Time. Up and do somewhat, ere thy limbs are sere.

  Theocritus

  Age, Frost, Firsts

  Theocritus (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Theocritus (Illustrated)”, p.71, Delphi Classics

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• Much has seen said of the wisdom of old age. Old age is wise, I grant, for itself, but not wise for the community. It is wise in declining new enterprises, for it has not the power nor the time to execute them; wise in shrinking from difficulty, for it has not the strength to overcome it; wise in avoiding danger, for it lacks the faculty of ready and swift action, by which dangers are parried and converted into advantages. But this is not wisdom for mankind at large, by whom new enterprises must be undertaken, dangers met, and difficulties surmounted.

  William C. Bryant

  Wise, Community, Age

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• The fears of old age disturb us, yet how few attain it?

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Age

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• Give me a staff of honor for mine age,
  But not a sceptre to control the world.

  William Shakespeare

  Retirement, Power, Giving

  William Shakespeare (1853). “The works of William Shakespeare: comprising his dramatic and poetical works, complete”, p.784

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• The happiest end of life is this: when the mind and the other senses being unimpaired, the same nature which put it together takes asunder her own work.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Mind, Together, Age

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1855). “Cicero's Three books of offices, or moral duties: also his Cato Major, an essay on old age; Lælius, an essay on friendship; Paradoxes; Scipio's dream; and Letter to Quintus on the duties of a magistrate”, p.250

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• Superfluous lags the veteran on the stage,
  Till pitying Nature signs the last release,
  And bids afflicted worth retire to peace.

  Samuel Johnson

  Age, Lasts, Lag

  Samuel Johnson, Thomas Park (1811). “The Poetical Works of Samuel Johnson: Collated with the Best Editions”, p.27

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• Old age is the repose of life; the rest that precedes the rest that remains.

  Robert Collyer

  Age, Remains, Repose

  Robert Collyer (1871). “The life that now is, sermons”, p.303

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• The follies which a man regrets the most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.

  Helen Rowland

  Regret, Women, Opportunity

  A Guide to Men "Improvisations" (1922)

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• To me - old age is always ten years older than I am.

  Bernard Baruch

  Birthday, Years, Age

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• We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Time, Hands, Meditation

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• Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Time, Stupid, Journey

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• One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Age, Aging, Forget

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Old age is when the liver spots show through your gloves.

  Phyllis Diller

  Inspirational, Birthday, Age

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• Pay less attention to what men say. Just watch what they do.

  Dale Carnegie

  Men, People, Actions Speak Louder Than Words

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• Don't let aging get you down. It's too hard to get back up.

  John Wagner

  Funny, Positive Thinking, Getting Older

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