(284 quotes found)
“Old age is no place for sissies.”
Bette Davis
“Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination?”
Walt Whitman
“There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age.”
Bill Bryson
“Colleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges.”
Bob Dylan
“Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.”
Theodore Roosevelt
“Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.”
Anne Bradstreet
“Youth lives on hope, old age on remembrance”
French Proverb
“The things which the child loves remain in the domain of the heart until old age. The most beautiful thing in life is that our souls remaining over the places where we once enjoyed ourselves”
Kahlil Gibran
“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 has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold and have escaped, not from one master, but from many.”
Plato
