Old Age Quotes - Page 9

• Life can only be understood backwards.

  Mackenzie Astin

  Short Life, Moving Forward, Reflection

  "Fictional character: David Shrader". Dream for an Insomniac, www.imdb.com. 1996.

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• As long as I am breathing, in my eyes, I am just beginning.

  Criss Jami

  Ambition, New Beginnings, Eye

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.82, Criss Jami

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• At age 20, we worry about what others think of us. At age 40, we don't care what they think of us. At age 60, we discover they haven't been thinking of us at all.

  Ann Landers

  Funny, Uplifting, Retirement

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• I don't know how I got over the hill without getting to the top.

  Will Rogers

  Getting Older, Hills, Over The Hill

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• A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, 'At my age, I don't even buy green bananas.'

  Claude Pepper

  Funny, Hilarious, Laughter

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• Age isn't how old you are but how old you feel.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Age, Aging, Old People

  "A sad affair" by Alberto Manguel, www.theguardian.com. November 11, 2005.

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• The idea is to die young as late as possible.

  Ashley Montagu

  Motivational, Death, Kids

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• My health is good; it's my age that's bad.

  Roy Acuff

  Health, Age, Aging

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• A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye, it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried.

  Dorothea Kent

  Funny, Eye, Men

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• Grandchildren don't make a man feel old; it's the knowledge that he's married to a grandmother.

  J. Norman Collie

  Grandmother, Men, Grandchildren

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• Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so.

  Tryon Edwards

  Health, Men, Years

  Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.58, Ravenio Books

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• There are three kinds of power,--wealth, strength, and talent; but as old age always weakens, often destroys, the two latter, the aged are induced to cling with the greater avidity to the former.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Power, Two, Age

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.26

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• The death of rock was not a natural death. Rock did not die of old age. It was murdered.

  Gene Simmons

  Rocks, Age, Natural

  "Gene Simmons: 'Rock Is Finally Dead'". Interview with Nick Simmons, www.esquire.com. September 4, 2014.

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• Why is old considered useless? Because in old age, the emphasis shifts from doing to Being, and our civilization, which is lost in doing, knows nothing of Being. It asks: Being? What do you do with it?

  Eckhart Tolle

  Civilization, Age, Useless

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.173, Penguin

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• Old age is a woman's hell.

  Ninon de L'Enclos

  Age, Hell

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• There is a slow-growing beauty which only comes to perfection in old age.... I have seen sweeter smiles on a lip of seventy than I ever saw on a lip of seventeen. There is the beauty of youth, and there is also the beauty of holiness—a beauty much more seldom met; and more frequently found in the arm-chair by the fire, with grandchildren around its knee, than in the ball-room or the promenade.

  Alexander Smith

  Grandchildren, Fire, Perfection

  Alexander Smith (1914). “Dreamthorp”

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• People always fancy that we must become old to become wise; but, in truth, as years advance, it is hard to keep ourselves as wise as we were.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Wise, Years, People

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.477, Ravenio Books

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• Take care that old age does not wrinkle your spirit even more than your face.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Wrinkles, Age, Doe

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• God is favorable to those whom he makes to die by degrees; 'tis the only benefit of old age. The last death will be so much the less painful: it will kill but a quarter of a man or but half a one at most.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Death, Men, Age

  Michel de Montaigne (1872). “All the Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne”, p.880

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• Tis well for old age that it is always accompanied with want of perception, ignorance, and a facility of being deceived. For should we see how we are used and would not acquiesce, what would become of us?

  Michel de Montaigne

  Ignorance, Perception, Age

  Michel de Montaigne, William Hazlitt (1860). “The Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy”, p.206

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• Is old age really so terrible? Not if you've brushed your teeth faithfully.

  Woody Allen

  Maturity, Age, Teeth

  Woody Allen (2007). “The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose”, Random House Incorporated

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• The law of God, as quite plainly expressed in woman's construction is this: There shall be no limit put upon your intercourse with the other sex sexually, at any time of life. The law of God, as quite plainly expressed in man's construction is this: During your entire life you shall be under inflexible limits and restrictions, sexually. During twenty-three days in every month (in absence of pregnancy) from the time a woman is seven years old till she dies of old age, she is ready for action, and competent. As competent as the candlestick is to receive the candle. Competent every day, competent every night. Also she wants that candle - yearns for it, longs for it, hankers after it, as commanded by the law of God in her heart.

  Mark Twain

  Sex, Pregnancy, Heart

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• If a man lives to any considerable age, it can not be denied that he laments his imprudences, but I notice he often laments his youth a deal more bitterly and with a more genuine intonation.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Men, Age, Youth

  Robert Louis Stevenson (1968). “Selected Poetry and Prose of Robert Louis Stevenson”

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• We do not die wholly at our deaths: we have mouldered away gradually long before. Faculty after faculty, interest after interest, attachment after attachment disappear: we are torn from ourselves while living.

  William Hazlitt

  Attachment, Long, Age

  William Hazlitt (1859). “Table talk”, p.7

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• Here's a song was never sung: Growing old is dying young.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Song, Dying, Age

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (2008). “Early Poems”, p.62, Courier Corporation

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