Old Quotes

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.

The whole business of marshaling one’s energies becomes more and more important as one grows older.

We grow old more through indolence, than through age.

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.

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life. (Cassius Clay)