(283 quotes found)
“I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.”
Francis Bacon Sr.
“I venerate old age; and I love not the man who can look without emotion upon the sunset of life, when the dusk of evening begins to gather over the watery eye, and the shadows of twilight grow broader and deeper upon the understanding.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“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
“Children are a great comfort in your old age - and they help you reach it faster, too.”
Lionel Kauffman
“To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.”
Bernard M. Baruch
“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
“At times is it seems that I am living my life backward, and that at the approach of old age my real youth will begin. My soul was born covered with wrinkles-wrinkles that my ancestors and parents most assiduously put there and that I had the greatest trouble removing.”
Andre Gide
“Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age.”
Aristotle
“Old age means realizing you will never own all the dogs you wanted to”
Joe Gores
