Old Quotes

Age, like distance lends a double charm.

My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.

Within this century we find, New encouragement for all mankind. What we once thought “old” is now passe, We set no limits on the day That meets our view with each sunrise We see life’s span extend beyond the surmise Our parents saw. Indeed we find Age is in truth a state of mind. The […]

Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.

At last now you can be what the old cannot recall and the young long for in dreams, yet still include them all.

I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.

You know you’re getting too old when the candles cost more that the cake.

No man is so old but thinks he may yet live another year.

Every man who has lived for fifty years has buried a whole world or even two; he has grown used to its disappearance and accustomed to the new scenery of another act: but suddenly the names and faces of a time long dead appear more and more often on his way, calling up series of […]

I’m so old, they’ve canceled my blood type.