Old Age Quotes - Page 3

• grow old with me. the best is yet to be. the last of life for which the first was made.

  Robert Browning

  Love, Birthday, Anniversary

  "Rabbi Ben Ezra" l. 1 (1864)

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• Age is opportunity no less than youth itself.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Happy Birthday, Twilight, Opportunity

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

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• Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

  Maggie Kuhn

  Confusion, Age, Body

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• Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Birthday, Beautiful, Art

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• Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.

  Chili Davis

  Love, Happy Birthday, Happiness

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• The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Birthday, Success, Nursing

  Twitter post from Jan 3, 2018

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• Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.

  Abigail Van Buren

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Wine

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• When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

  Mark Twain

  Love, Funny, Motivational

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.121, Courier Corporation

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• Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Witty, Crazy

  Groucho Marx (2009). “Groucho And Me”, p.28, Da Capo Press

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.

  Thomas Hardy

  Beautiful, Age, Ugly

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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

  Life, Birthday, Time

  'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage' (1812-18) canto 2, st. 98

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• To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.

  Alan Bleasdale

  Love, Heart, Exercise

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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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• 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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• 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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