(269 quotes found)
“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
“Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.”
Anne Bradstreet
“It is not the end of joy that makes old age so sad, but the end of hope”
Jean Paul Richter
“Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.”
Emily Dickinson
“When old age shall this generation waste, Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say'st, 'Beauty is truth, truth beauty, - that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know”
John Keats
“The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.”
A. J. P. Taylor
“He who wants to warm himself in old age must build a fireplace in his youth”
German Proverb
“What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories”
William Somerset Maugham
“Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.”
Theodore Roosevelt
“I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I'm not old yet!”
Leo Rosten
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