866 quotes found
“Age has a good mind and sorry shanks.”
“To me old age is always fifteen years older than I am.”
“Few people know how to be old.”
“First you forget names then you forget faces then you forget to pull your zipper up then you forget to pull your zipper down.”
“I really believe that more harm is done by old men who cling to their influence than by young men who anticipate it.”
“He had come to that time in his life (it varies for every man) when a human being gives himself over to his demon or to his genius according to a mysterious law which orders him either to destroy ...”
“The individual succumbs but he does not die if he has left something to mankind.”
“So lively brisk old fellow don't let age get you down. White hairs or not you can still be a lover.”
“He that has seen both sides of fifty has lived to little purpose if he has no other views of the world than he had when he was much younger.”
“Let us respect gray hairs especially our own.”
“The spiritual eyesight improves as the physical eyesight declines.”
“A man over ninety is a great comfort to all his elderly neighbours: he is a picket-guard at the extreme outpost: and the young folks of sixty and seventy feel that the enemy must get by him before ...”
“An old codger rampant and still learning.”
“A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.”
“Many a man that couldn't direct ye to th' drug store on th' corner when he was thirty will get a respectful hearin' when age has further impaired his mind.”
“Never have I enjoyed youth so thoroughly as I have in my old age. In writing Dialogues in Limbo The Last Puritan and now all these descriptions of the friends of my youth and the young friends of...”
“The arctic loneliness of age.”
“When pain ends gain ends too.”
“No gains without pains.”
“Longevity is having a chronic disease and taking care of it.”
