(366 quotes found)
“I'll tell 'ya how to stay young: Hang around with older people”
Bob Hope
“It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.”
Lydia Maria Francis Child
“Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.”
Confucius
“Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.”
George Chapman
“Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.”
St. Jerome
“A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.”
Maurice Chevalier
“The University of Nebraska says that elderly people that drink beer or wine at least four times a week have the highest bone density. They need it - they're the ones falling down the most.”
Jay Leno
“When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity - but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.”
Eugene O'Neill
“In the old days villains had moustaches and kicked the dog. Audiences are smarter today. They don't want their villain to be thrown at them with green limelight on his face. They want an ordinary human being with failings.”
Alfred Hitchcock
“Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.”
Francis Bacon Sr.
