866 quotes found
“It is time to be old To take in sail.”
“I feel age like an icicle down my back.”
“Old age is a time of humiliations the most disagreeable of which for me is that I cannot work long at sustained high pressure with no leaks in concentration.”
“Dignity high station or great riches are in some sort necessary to old men in order to keep the younger at a distance who are otherwise too apt to insult them upon the score of their age.”
“The young feel tired at the end of an action The old at the beginning.”
“Old foxes want no tutors.”
“Old birds are hard to pluck.”
“A man of fifty looks as old as Santa Claus to a girl of twenty.”
“Age and treachery will triumph over youth and skill.”
“All the best sands of my life are somehow getting into the wrong end of the hourglass. If I could only reverse it! Were it in my power to do so would I?”
“On the day of his death in his eightieth year Elliot 'the Apostle of the Indians ' was found teaching an Indian child at his bedside. 'Why not to rest from your labours now?' asked a friend. 'Be...”
“All would live long but none would be old.”
“Before you contradict an old man my fair friend you should endeavour to understand him.”
“An old man concludeth from his knowing mankind that they know him too and that maketh him very wary.”
“As the world is wearie of me so am I of it.”
“Zsa Zsa Gabor when asked which of the Gabor women was the oldest said "She'll never admit it but I believe it is Mama." When men grow virtuous in their old age they only make a sacrifice to God...”
“An old man loved is Winter with flowers.”
“When you are forty half of you belongs to the past. . . And when you are seventy nearly all of you.”
“Middle age is when you have a choice of two temptations and choose the one that will get you home earlier.”
“To an old man any place that's warm is homeland.”
