best quotations about
Old Age |
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Quotations
 | We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing. — George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950, Irish writer, Nobel 1925 31 likes |
 | One great thing about getting old is that you can get out of all sorts of social obligations just by saying you’re too tired. — George Carlin, 1936-2008, American comedian 12 likes |
 | Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard there's nothing you can do. — Golda Meir, 1898-1978, Israeli Prime Minister 10 likes |
 | Age gives you an excuse for not being very good at things that you were not very good at when you were young. — Thomas Sowell, 1930 -, American political thinker 10 likes |
 | When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is. — Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900, Irish writer 8 likes |
 | It is old age, rather than death, that is the opposite of life. — Simone De Beauvoir, 1908-1986, French writer 7 likes |
 | To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am. — Bernard Baruch, 1870-1965, American businessman & statesman 6 likes |
 | Getting old is not for sissies. — Bette Davis, 1908-1989, American actress 6 likes |
 | No one is so old as to think that he cannot live one more year. — Cicero, 106-43 BC, Roman orator & statesman 6 likes |
 | Old age isn’t a battle; old age is a massacre. — Philip Roth, 1933-2018, American writer 6 likes |
 | That judges of important causes should hold office for life is a disputable thing, for the mind grows old as well as the body. — Aristotle, 384-322 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 6 likes |
 | An old man is a man who has dined and who watches others eat. — Honoré de Balzac, 1799-1850, French writer 5 likes |
 | Old age, after all, is merely the punishment for having lived. — Emile M. Cioran, 1911-1995, French-Romanian philosopher 5 likes |
 | The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. — H.L. Mencken, 1880-1956, American columnist & cultural critic 5 likes |
 | You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old. — George Burns, 1896-1996, American comedian 5 likes |
 | The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions. — Oliver W. Holmes Sr., 1809-1894, American writer 5 likes |
 | All would live long, but none would be old. — Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790, American politician & writer 4 likes |
 | The hell of women is old age. — La Rochefoucauld, 1613-1680, French writer 4 likes |
 | Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art. — Eleanor Roosevelt, 1884-1962, Wife of the 32nd USA president 4 likes |
 | I have escaped, as you see, the common climacteric of all old men —my sixty-third year. — Augustus, 63 BC-14 AD, Roman Emperor 4 likes |
 | The downside, when you live a lot, is that the last picture the world will have of you will be that of an old man. — Jean Dutourd, 1920-2011, French writer 3 likes |
 | The older you get the stronger the wind gets - and it's always in your face. — Pablo Picasso, 1881-1973, Spanish painter 3 likes |
 | Nature abhors the old, and old age seems the only disease; all others run into this one. — Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1884, American philosopher 3 likes |
| We don’t grow old. When we cease to grow, we become old. — Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1884, American philosopher 3 likes |
 | The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It's the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages. — Will Durant, 1885-1981, American historian & philosopher 3 likes |
 | Love does not die, when someone gets old, people get old, because they can not love anymore. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 1927-2014, Colombian writer 3 likes |
 | Doing the same thing for too long, in the same place, at the same time, makes you old. — Christian Bobin, 1951-2022, French writer 3 likes |
 | When our memories outweigh our dreams, it is then that we become old. — Bill Clinton, 1946-, American President [1992-2000] 3 likes |
| We don’t grow older, we grow riper. — Pablo Picasso, 1881-1973, Spanish painter 2 likes |
 | Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long. — Somerset Maugham, 1874-1965, British writer 2 likes |
 | Old people like to say that they are no longer worthy of anything, implying that at one time they were worthy of extraordinary deeds. — Manolis Doukides, Greek writer 2 likes |
 | Young people seek love, money, health. One day they will say: health, money, love. — Paul Lefevre Geraldy, 1885-1983, French writer 2 likes |
 | For you and I are past our dancing days. — William Shakespeare, 1564-1616, English poet & playwright ‐ Romeo and Juliet 2 likes |
 | I am not that guy over there who grows old with me. — Louis Scutenaire, 1905-1987, Belgian surrealist & anarchist 2 likes |
 | Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older. — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, 1742-1799, German author of maxims 2 likes |
 | The art of growing old is the art of being regarded by the oncoming generations as a support and not as a stumbling-block. — André Maurois, 1885-1967, French writer 1 likes |
| The real evil of old age is not the weakness of the body, it is the indifference of the soul. — André Maurois, 1885-1967, French writer 1 likes |
 | An old man is a child with a past. — Zarko Petan, 1929-2014, Slovenian playwright & aphorist 1 likes |
 | Old age is not bearable without a great cause or a vice. |
| Time was when people used to brag about how old they were — and I am old enough to remember it. |
| Since it is the Other within us who is old, it is natural that the revelation of our age should come to us from outside — from others. We do not accept it willingly. |
 | Old age takes from the man of intellect no qualities save those that are useless to wisdom. |
| Old age was naturally more honored in times when people could not know much more than what they had seen. |
 | Old age is the only disease you don’t want to be cured of. |
| A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time. |
 | After a certain age, the two arms of a chair attract you more than the two arms of a woman. |
 | When I was young I pitied the old. Now old, it is the young I pity. |
 | Most men make use of the first part of their life to render the last part miserable. |
 | The view after seventy is breathtaking. What is lacking is someone, anyone, of the older generation to whom you can turn when you want to satisfy your curiosity about some detail of the landscape of the past. There is no longer any older generation. You have become it, while your mind was mostly on other matters. |
| We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves. — Bernard Baruch, 1870-1965, American businessman & statesman |
 | The worst old age is that of the mind. |
 | The pleasures that once were heaven look silly at sixty-seven. |
| You will know you're old when you cease to be amazed. |
 | We are old when we need sympathy. It is as sure a sign as the arteries. |
 | No matter how young you are, the day you lose your mother, you suddenly get old. |
| A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father. |
| The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude. |
| Old people, with other old people, are not so old. |
| It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams. |
 | The longer I live, the less future there is to worry about. — Ashleigh Brilliant, 1933-, British cartoonist & epigrammatist |
| The older you get, the more important it is to not act your age. — Ashleigh Brilliant, 1933-, British cartoonist & epigrammatist |
 | We turn not older with years but newer every day. |
| Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought. |
 | Old age is nothing but the absence of craziness, the loss of illusion and passion. |
 | The real affliction of old age is remorse. |
| The evening of life brings its lamp with it. |
Personal Stories
| Nice to be here? At my age it’s nice to be anywhere. — George Burns, 1896-1996, American comedian 7 likes |
Quotes in Verse
 | Come grow old with me. The best is yet to be. — Robert Browning, 1812-1889, British poet 12 likes |
Funny Quotes
| You know you’re getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you’re down there. — George Burns, 1896-1996, American comedian 13 likes |
 | Inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened. — Terry Pratchett, 1948-2015, British writer 8 likes |
| If you live to be one hundred, you’ve got it made. Very few people die past that age. — George Burns, 1896-1996, American comedian 6 likes |
| At a formal dinner party, the person nearest death should always be seated closest to the bathroom. — George Carlin, 1936-2008, American comedian 6 likes |
 | The problem with life is, by the time you can read women like a book, your library card has expired. — Milton Berle, 1908-2002, American comedian 5 likes |
 | You know you're old if they have discontinued your blood type. — Phyllis Diller, 1917-2012, American comedian 5 likes |
 | How young can you die of old age? — Steven Wright, 1955-, American comedian 3 likes |
| Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples. — George Burns, 1896-1996, American comedian 3 likes |
| You know you're old when your walker has an airbag. — Phyllis Diller, 1917-2012, American comedian 3 likes |
 | An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her. — Agatha Christie, 1890-1976, British writer 1 likes |
 | You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake. |
 | By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it. |
Ancient Greek
 | The old man has been young, whilst it is unknown if the young man will reach old age. Ο γέρων νέος εγένετο, ο δε νέος άδηλον ει εις γήρας αφίξεται. — Democritus, 470-370 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 16 likes |
 | Respect old age, for it does not come alone. Τίμα το γήρας, ου γαρ έρχεται μόνον. — Menander, 4th cent. BC, Ancient Greek dramatist (New Comedy) 14 likes |
 | As I grow older, I constantly learn more. Γηράσκω δ’ αεί πολλά διδασκόμενος. — Solon, 630-560 BC, Ancient Greek lawmaker & philosopher 12 likes |
| Old age and poverty, two wounds hard to heal. Γήρας και πενία δύο τραύματα δυσθεράπευτα. — Democritus, 470-370 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 10 likes |
 | It’s bitter for a young woman an old husband. Πικρόν νέα γυναικί πρεσβύτης ανήρ. — Euripides, 480-406 BC, Ancient Greek tragedian ‐ Phoenix 7 likes |
 | Old age is a harbor for bad things. Το γήρας όρμον είναι των κακών. — Bias of Priene, 625-540 BC, one of the 7 sages of Ancient Greece 5 likes |
 | Old men are children twice. Ως δις παίδες οι γέροντες! — Aristophanes, 445-386 BC, Ancient Greek comic playwright ‐ Clouds 3 likes |
 | You shouldn’t make fun of the old age that we all hope to reach. Μη δειν ονειδίζειν το γήρας, εις ό πάντες ευχόμεθα ελθείν. — Bion of Borysthenes, c. 325-255 BC, Ancient Greek Cynic philosopher 3 likes |
Movie Quotes
| Old age, it's the only disease...that you don't look forward to being cured of. — from the film Citizen Kane (1941) 6 likes |
 | I'm too old for this. — from the film Lethal Weapon (1987) 5 likes |
 | When nine hundred years old you reach, look as good you will not. — from the film Star Wars-Return of the Jedi (1983) 5 likes |
 | Three things to remember when you get older: never pass up a bathroom, never waste a hard-on, and never trust a fart. — from the film The Bucket List (2007) 4 likes |
