Authors:

Old Age Quotes - Page 2

Old age takes in part savoury wisdom for its food - see to that your old age will not lack in nourishment.

Old age takes in part savoury wisdom for its food - see to that your old age will not lack in nourishment.

Leonardo da Vinci
Age, Old Age, Nourishment

Old age is an island surrounded by death.

Juan Montalvo
Islands, Age, Old Age

Old age makes caricatures of us all.

P. D. James
Age, Caricatures, Old Age
P. D. James (2010). “A Taste for Death”, p.239, Vintage

Old age is women's hell.

Ninon de L'Enclos
Age, Hell, Old Age

Old age is like learning a new profession. And not one of your own choosing.

Jacques Barzun
Age, Profession, Old Age
"Age of Reason". The New Yorker, (p. 103), October 22, 2007.

Old age is the Outpatient's Dept of purgatory.

William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley
Age, Purgatory, Old Age

old folks is the nation.

Toni Cade Bambara
Age, Folks, Old Age

No one's so old that he mayn't with decency hope for one more day.

Seneca the Younger
Age, One More Day, Old Age

Nature abhors the old.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Age, Old Age, Growing Old
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Portable Emerson”, p.159, Penguin

How strange it is that life must be nearly over, before one fully learns to live!

Myrtle Reed
Age, Strange, Old Age
Myrtle Reed (1916). “Old Rose and Silver”, p.30, Library of Alexandria

I'm too young to be this old.

Mimi Sheraton
Age, Young, Old Age

In old age, mirror is not a friend!

Mehmet Murat Ildan
Mirrors, Age, Old Age

Old age learns about less after a lifetime of more.

Mason Cooley
Age, Lifetime, Old Age

when you start to bore yourself and others, that's when you begin to get old.

Martha Albrand
Age, Bores, Old Age
Martha Albrand (1950). “Wait for the Dawn”

Old age by nature is rather talkative.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Age, Talkative, Old Age
Marcus Tullius Cicero, Cyrus R. Edmonds (1863). “Three Books of Offices; Or, Moral Duties: Also His Cato Major, an Essay on Old Age; Laelius, an Essay on Friendship; Paradoxes; Scipio's Dream; and Letter to Quintus on the Duties of a Magistrate. Literally Translated, with Notes, Designed to Exhibit a Comparative View of the Opinions of Cicero, and Those of Modern Moralists and Ethical Philosophers”, p.242

Slowly and imperceptibly old age comes creeping on.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Age, Old Age

But with what incessant and grievous ills is old age surrounded!

Juvenal
Age, Incessant, Old Age

old age' is always ten years more than we are.

Joan Rivers
Years, Age, Old Age

No one should be alone in their old age, he thought.

Ernest Hemingway
Age, Should, Old Age
Ernest Hemingway, Nick Lyons, Jack Hemingway (2012). “Hemingway on Fishing”, p.205, Simon and Schuster

In my old age, I'll be in L.A.

David Hockney
Age, Old Age

Old age is perhaps life's decision about us.

Christina Stead
Decision, Age, Old Age
Christina Stead (2016). “The Man Who Loved Children”, p.147, Head of Zeus

My age I will not once lament, / But sing, my time so near is spent.

Anne Bradstreet
Age, My Time, Old Age
Anne Bradstreet (2012). “To My Husband and Other Poems”, p.15, Courier Corporation

When I cease to be indignant I will have begun my old age.

Andre Gide
Age, Indignant, Old Age

You May Also Like: