(284 quotes found)
“I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.”
Francis Bacon Sr.
“The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Old age is not so bad when you consider the alternatives.”
Maurice Chevalier
“Old age is just a record of one's whole life.”
Muhammad Ali
“Education is the best provision for old age.”
Aristotle
“Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age.”
“What do you fear my lady?' 'A cage. To stay behind bars until use and old age accept them and all chance of valor has gone beyond beyond recall or desire.”
J.R.R. Tolkien
“To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.”
Bernard M. Baruch
“A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.”
Robertson Davies
“Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age.”
Victor Hugo
