Old Age Quotes

Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.

Topics: Age, Forget, Men

In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.

Will Durant

Topics: Age, Freedom, Great

Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.

Herman Melville

Topics: Age, Death, Life

Old age is when the liver spots show through your gloves.

Topics: Age, Old, Old Age

I was always proud of being tough-minded, and I think I still am, but in my old age I've got a little softer in the head, and that's all right.

Nora Ephron

Topics: Age, Always, Old Age

There is a quiet about the life of a farmer, and the hope of a serene old age, that no other business or profession can promise.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Topics: Age, Business, Hope

Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

Topics: Age, Matter, Old Age

Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Topics: Age, Death, Old Age

It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Topics: Age, Love, Man

The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.

George Santayana

Topics: Age, Green, Old