Old Quotes

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.

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

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. […]

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

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

A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.

As one gets older, one discovers everything is going to be exactly the same with different hats on.

Most people think that aging is irreversible and we know that there are mechanisms even in the human machinery that allow for the reversal of aging, through correction of diet, through anti-oxidants, through removal of toxins from the body, through exercise, through yoga and breathing techniques, and through meditation.