Quotes on Age: Old Age
Have you not a moist eye? a dry hand? a yellow cheek? a white beard? a decreasing leg? an increasing belly? is not your voice broken? your wind short? your chin double? your wit single? and every part about you blasted with antiquity?
Chief Justice, King Henry IV part 2 William Shakespeare(1564-1616) English dramatist, poet
At seventy-seven it is time to be earnest.
Dr. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English author, lexicographer
All would live long, but none would be old.
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman, writer
O what a thing is age! Death without death’s quiet.
Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864) English author
When a man fell into his anec-dotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world.
Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881)English prime minister
Talking is the disease of age.
Ben Jonson (1572-1637) English dramatist, poet
A good old man, sir, he will be talking; as they say, “when the age is in, the wit is out.”
Dogberry, Much Ado About Nothing William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist, poet
Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!
Falstaff, King Henry IV part 2 William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist, poet
An old man gives good advice to console himself for no longer being able to set a bad example.
Francois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French writer, moralist
Age.That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit.
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) American author
An old man concludeth from his knowing mankind that they know him too, and that maketh him very wary.
George Savile, Lord Halifax (1633-1695) English statesman, author
As a matter of fact, elderly people are not more contemptible than anyone else.
Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966) British novelist
One evil in old age is that, as your time is come, you think every little illness the beginning of the end. When a man expects to be arrested, every knock at the door is an alarm.
Sydney Smith (1771-1845) English clergyman, writer
No one is so old as to think he cannot live one more year.
Cicero (106-43 Bc) Roman orator, philosopher
To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.
Bernard Baruch (1870-1965) American fnancier
Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that happen to a man.
Leon Trotsky (1879-1940) Russian revolutionary leader
I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left.
Voltaire (1694-1778) French philosopher, author
The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.
Logan Pearsall Smith (1865-1946)Anglo-American essayist
The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young.
Mark Twain (1835-1910) American author
Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon.
Francis Bacon (1561-1626) English philosopher, essayist
Many a man that can’t direct you to a corner drugstore will get a respectful hearing when age has further impaired his mind.
Finley Peter Dunne (1867-1936) American journalist, humorist
Young men soon give, and soon forget affronts: Old age is slow in both.
Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist
Old men are testy, and will have their way.
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) English poet
Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.
Edna Ferber (1887-1968) American author
There are three classes of elderly women; first, that dear old soul; second, that old woman; third, that old witch.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) English poet
Growing old is more like a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form.
Andre Maurois (1885-1967) French writer
I prefer old age to the alternative.
Maurice Chevalier (1888-1972) French singer, actor
What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life’s page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.
Lord Byron (1788-1824) English poet
They are all gone into the world of light, And I alone sit lingering here.
Henry Vaughan (1622-1695) Welsh poet
