(284 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
“There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.”
Fay Weldon
“Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.”
Golda Meir
“Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret”
Benjamin Disraeli
“Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom.”
Plato
“Youth, large, lusty, loving - Youth, full of grace, force, fascination. Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination?”
Walt Whitman
“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
“You think it horrible that lust and rageShould dance attendance upon my old age;They were not such a plague when I was young;What else have I to spur me into song?”
William Butler Yeats
“In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.”
Socrates
“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
