"Old Age" Quotes . Top 30 Short Quotes About "Old Age"

"The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long."

#Fear #Goes On #May

"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

#Abby #Old People #Aging And Wisdom

"It's true, some wine improves with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place."

--- Abigail Van Buren

#Abby #Firsts #Old Age

"People are anxious to save up financial means for old age; they should also be anxious to prepare a spiritual means for old age.... Wisdom, maturity, tranquility do not come all of a sudden when we retire."

--- Abraham Joshua Heschel

#People #Mean #Retiring

"Some reckon their age by years, Some measure their life by art; But some tell their days by the flow of their tears And their lives by the moans of their hearts."

--- Abram Joseph Ryan

#Tears #Life #Flow

"When I came to power, I did not want the concentration camps to become old age pensioners homes, but instruments of terror."

--- Adolf Hitler

#Terror #Holocaust #Old Age

"Old men, what are they? Fast fading the leaf, Three-footed they walk, yet frail as a child, As a dream set afloat in the daylight."

--- Aeschylus

#Daylight #Walks #Frail

"Old age hath stronger sense of right than youth."

--- Aeschylus

#Youth #Stronger #Old Age

"Beyond age, leaf withered, man goes three footed no stronger than a child is, a dream that falters in daylight."

--- Aeschylus

#Daylight #Dream #Stronger

"An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her."

--- Agatha Christie

#Best Marriage #Great Husband #Getting Older

"I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you."

--- Agatha Christie

#Growing Old #Inspirational Birthday #Whole

"Better to die of something than to die in old age of nothing."

--- Al Sharpton

#Purpose #Dies #Old Age

"After 40 (old age for most of man's history), one should strive to be more or less packed and ready to go were the end call to come."

--- Alain de Botton

#Ready #Ends #Old Age

"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 #Vigor #Mind

"There are many mysteries in old age but the greatest, surely, is this: in those adverts for walk-in bathtubs, why doesn't all the water gush out when you get in?"

--- Alan Coren

#Walks #Mystery #Adverts

"I realized it might be possible to do such a thing, run for money, trot for wages on piece work at a bob a puff rising bit by bit to a guinea a gasp and retiring through old age at thirty-two because of lace-curtain lungs, a football heart, and legs like varicose beanstalks."

--- Alan Sillitoe

#Wages #Might #Lungs

"Old married people look so much alike that they have the same number of hairs in their ears."

--- Albert Camus

#People #Ears #Old Age

"But the world itself has no reason, and I can say so, I who have experienced it all, from the creation to the destruction."

--- Albert Camus

#Creation #Reason #I Can

"Despite my being an old gypsy there is a tendency to respectability inherent in old age."

--- Albert Einstein

#Old Age #Gypsy #Tendencies

"Even under a harsh God-and I do not believe in a harsh God-one is entitled to serenity in old age."

--- Albert Outler

#Serenity #Harsh #Believe

"The older I grow, the more I find myself alone."

--- Alberto Giacometti

#Chess Pawns #Older People #Chess

"The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm."

--- Aldous Huxley

#Mean #Funny 40 Year Old Birthday #Talent And Genius

"You can't make flivers without steel - and you can't make tragedies without social instability. The world's stable now. People are happy; they get what they want, and they never want what they can't get. They're well off; they're safe; they're never ill; they're not afraid of death; they're blissfully ignorant of passion and old age; they're plagued with no mothers or fathers; they've got no wives, or children, or lovers to feel strongly about; they're so conditioned that they pratically can't help behaving as they ought to behave."

--- Aldous Huxley

#People #Lovers #Passion

"A youth of frolic, an old age of cards."

--- Alexander Pope

#Youth #Old Age #Cards

"See how the World its Veterans rewards! A Youth of Frolics, an old Age of Cards; Fair to no purpose, artful to no end, Young without Lovers, old without a Friend; A Fop their Passion, but their Prize a Sot; Alive ridiculous, and dead forgot."

--- Alexander Pope

#Youth #Prize #Rewards

"Oh! if to dance all night, and dress all day, Charm'd the small-pox, or chas'd old age away; . . . . To patch, nay ogle, might become a saint, Nor could it sure be such a sin to paint."

--- Alexander Pope

#All Night #Might #Sin

"Sickness is a sort of early old age; it teaches us a diffidence in our earthly state."

--- Alexander Pope

#Diffidence #Sickness #Old Age

"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

#Youth #Mets #Seventies

"Greatness is the dream of youth realized in old age."

--- Alfred de Vigny

#Youth #Greatness #Dream

"What is a great life? It is the dreams of youth realised in old age."

--- Alfred de Vigny

#Youth #Life #Realised

30 "Old Age" Quotes