Quotes on Old Age

He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.

Discouragement is of all ages: In youth it is a presentiment, in old age a remembrance.

When intelligent and sensible people despise knowledge in their old age, it is only because they have asked too much of it and of themselves.

Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age, and to imagine right up to the brink of death that life is only beginning. I think that is the only way to keep adding to one's talent, and one's inner happiness.

It's nice to have a lot of money, but you know, you don't want to keep it around forever. I prefer buying things. Otherwise, it's a little like saving sex for your old age.

Observation, not old age, brings wisdom.

Not even old age knows how to love death.

He has existed only, not lived, who lacks wisdom in old age.

India's sex ratio is 1000 boys for 940 girls. Who creates this disparity? It isn't God. Don't fill your coffers by sacrificing the mother's womb. People feel that sons will take care of them when they are old. But I have seen aged parents in old-age homes. I have seen families where one daughter serves parents more than five sons.

The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.

Middle age is when you go to bed at night and hope you feel better in the morning. Old age is when you go to bed at night and hope you wake up in the morning.

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

I have achieved my seventy years in the usual way: by sticking strictly to a scheme of life which would kill anybody else... I will offer here, as a sound maxim, this: That we can't reach old age by another man's road.

Old age and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance.

Nothing is more despicable than the old age of a passionate man. When the vigour of youth fails him, and his amusements pall with frequent repetition, his occasional rage sinks by decay of strength into peevishness; that peevishness, for want of novelty and variety, becomes habitual; the world falls off from around him, and he is left, as Homer expresses it, to devour his own heart in solitude and contempt.

If wrinkles must be written on our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.

The mere man of pleasure is miserable in old age, and the mere drudge in business is but little better, whereas, natural philosophy, mathematical and mechanical science, are a continual source of tranquil pleasure, and in spite of the gloomy dogmas of priests and of superstition, the study of these things is the true theology; it teaches man to know and admire the Creator, for the principles of science are in the creation, and are unchangeable and of divine origin.

Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.

Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.

I know not any season of life that is past more agreeably than virtuous old age.