Old Age Quotes
Amit Kalantri
When your youth is about to enter in old age it shouldn't wonder, what happened? it must say, well done.
1344 Amit Kalantri
You cannot afford to gamble your youth only for fun.
1171 Amit Kalantri
You can not have empty or neutral mind, as long as you work the mind will contain dreams, if you stop working it will contain regrets.
2439 Mokokoma Mokhonoana
As a subconscious attempt to add meaning or purpose to their life: The unemployed pray for a job; the retired pray for grandchildren.
1061 Núria Añó
The land of easy mathematics where he who works adds up and he who retires subtracts.
1055 Émile Zola
Jean-Louis had never had a day's illness in his life. He was tall and as gnarled as an oak. The sun had baked his skin until it had the colour and toughness and stillness of a tree. With advancing years, he had lost his tongue. He now never spoke, considering such an activity pointless.
4607 P.G. Wodehouse
There is only one cure for grey hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine.
1318 Simone De Beauvoir
I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.
4410 Nicholas Sparks
Our lives can't be measured by our final years, of this I am sure.
2243 Jules Renard
It`s not how old you are, it`s how you are old.
1881 Christopher Hitchens
Hardest of all, as one becomes older, is to accept that sapient remarks can be drawn from the most unwelcome or seemingly improbable sources, and that the apparently more trustworthy sources can lead one astray.
2362 Ursula K. Le Guin
Everything is old, here. We are old - the Masters."
"You're not," Irian said. She thought him between thirty and forty[...]
"But I came far. Miles can be years.
4053 Herbert Hoover
Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die.
4868 Mark Doty
And then we ease him out of that worn-out body with a kiss, and he's gone like a whisper, the easiest breath.
2825 Sri Chinmoy
Hope is sweet.
Hope is illumining.
Hope is fulfilling.
Hope can be everlasting.
Therefore, do not give up hope,
Even in the sunset of your life.
2617 W.B. Yeats
When you are old and grey and full of sleep
And nodding by the fire, take down this book,
And slowly read, and dream of the soft look
Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep
4943 Pierre-Jean De Béranger
Old age doth in sharp pains abound;
We are belabored by the gout,
Our blindness is a dark profound,
Our deafness each one laughs about.
Then reason's light with falling ray
Doth but a trembling flicker cast.
Honor to age, ye children pay!
Alas! my fifty years are past!
4261 Aristotle
Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age.
4025 Lailah Gifty Akita
When I was a child, I thought like a child.
When I became adult, I seek a deeper understanding of life.
4885 Carew Papritz
Old is old at any age. Old is when you quit asking questions about this, that, and everything. Old is when you forget how to love-or worse, don't care. Old is when you don't want to dance anymore. Old is when you don't want to learn anything new except how to be old. Old is when people tell you that you are old-and you believe them.
1012 Terraine Francois
When you get rid of all the older people, you get rid of all the wisdom.
1989 Christopher Hawke
I wept for relationships not possible due to denial and dreams locked in the back of people’s minds, all of the bits of life that lay dormant until the babblings of televisions and nursing homes sweep them away. It makes me wonder how many of the dreams we had originally have already been forgotten.
3490 Cliodhna Russell
Michael and Luke met for the first time after 106 years – although the pair lived just 20 miles away from each other.
3188 Richelle E. Goodrich
It's strange how in childhood it feels like tomorrow won't come until the end of forever, but in adulthood it feels like the end of forever could come tomorrow.
3222 Walter Scott
Thou hast had thty day, old dame, but thy sun has long been set. Thou art now the very emblem of an old warhorse turned out on the barren heath; thou hast had thy paces in thy time, but now a broken amble is the best of them.
2333 Isaac D'Israeli
The delights of reading impart the vivacity of youth even to old age.
1248 George MacDonald
How old are you?"
"Ten," answered Tangle.
"You don't look like it," said the lady.
"How old are you, please?" returned Tangle.
"Thousands of years old," answered the lady.
"You don't look like it," said Tangle.
"Don't I? I think I do. Don't you see how beautiful I am!
4571 George Burns
Sex at age 90 is like trying to shoot pool with a rope.
3906 Patricia Nell Warren
In my old age, I was at last being permitted to make the discovery that lovemaking gets better and better with time, if it's with someone you care for.
4782 Amit Kalantri
Old ones should respect the energy of youths and youths should respect the experience of old ones.
1410 Amit Kalantri
Your youth is certainly finished and old age has definitely arrived if you feel that you are losing enthusiasm, excitement and energy towards your dreams and goals.
2315 John Jeremiah Sullivan
When Lytle was born, the Wright Brothers had not yet achieved a working design. When he died, Voyager 2 was exiting the solar system. What does one do with the coexistence of those details in a lifetime’s view? It weighed on him.
3194 J. Matthew Nespoli
Old Age- You can tell when you're getting old when you stop taking drugs for fun and start taking them to keep you alive.
-character Jackson Rockenberger (Broken)
3093 Fidelis O. Mkparu
I am a fading phantasmagoria. Time has left me in partial glory."-Fidelis O Mkparu
4478 Ben Mitchell
Now that I’ve reached the ripe old age of retirement, I feel it my duty to teach you everything I’ve learnt about love, so listen closely. Love is like… That’s as far as I’ve gotten I’m afraid.
1848 John Steinbeck
It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better.
2270 Walter M. Miller Jr.
When you tire of living, change itself seems evil, does it not? for then any change at all disturbs the deathlike peace of the life-weary.
2486 Colleen McCullough
Старость – самое жестокое мщение, которое на нас обрушивает мстительный бог. Почему о%B
4413 Brennan Manning
A man doesn't grow old because he has lived a certain number of years. A man grows old when he deserts his ideal. The years may wrinkle his skin, but deserting his ideal wrinkles his soul.
3102 Michael LaRocca
At my age, every day that I overcome simple inertia is a victory.
3808 Margaret Atwood
According to Tobias, women hang around longer because they’re less capable of indignation and better at being humiliated, for what is old age but one long string of indignities? What person of integrity would put up with it?
2910 Mokokoma Mokhonoana
To come across as younger than they are: Women buy creams that promise to slow aging; men buy fast cars.
2532 Gabriel García Márquez
...her own experience was beginning to tell her that an alert old age can be more keen than the cards.
4332 Michael Bassey Johnson
Persistent smile brings out hollow dimples, and persistent frowns brings out hollow wrinkles.
2554 Lailah Gifty Akita
The adult were once young.
The young have not yet attained adulthood.The young must learn to appreciate the wisdom of elderly people and learn from their life experiences.
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