Old Quotes

He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

No one is so old as to think he cannot live one more year.

At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he knows he can’t.

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

Old age ain’t no place for sissies.

As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule, may be old in body, but never be so in mind.

As I see it, there is not much difference between being sixty-three and fifty-three: whereas when I was fifty-three I felt at a staggering distance from forty-three.

Old age has been charged with being insensible to pleasure and to enjoyments arising from the gratification of the senses, a most blessed and heavenly effect, truly, if it eases us of what in youth was the sorest plague of life.

At twenty you have many desires which hide the truth, but beyond forty there are only real and fragile truths – your abilities and your failings.

I recently turned sixty. Practically a third of my life is over.