Old Quotes

You know you’re old if they have discontinued your blood type.

Sure I’m for helping the elderly. I’m going to be old myself some day. (in her 80s)

A man is as old as he’s feeling, A woman as old as she looks.

Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.

For in all the world there are no people so piteous and forlorn as those who are forced to eat the bitter bread of dependency in their old age, and find how steep are the stairs of another man’s house. Wherever they go they know themselves unwelcome. Wherever they are, they feel themselves a burden. […]

Filth and old age, I’m sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.

When young we are faithful to individuals, when older we grow more loyal to situations and to types.

Old age isn’t so bad when you consider the alternative.