Respect for Old Age

Old age comes at a bad time. - Sue Banducci

To stop aging, keep on raging. - Michael Forbes

Old age is the verdict of life. - Amelia E Barr

Old age is no place for sissies. - Bette Davis

Old age is a wonderful disguise. - Katherine Applegate

Cherish youth, but trust old age. - Pueblo Proverb

I want to die young at a ripe old age. - Ashley Montagu

The old horse in the stable still yearns to run. - Mongolian Proverb

The gods bestowed on him the gift of perpetual old age. - Oscar Wilde

Old age is not so bad when you consider the alternative. - Maurice Chevalier

If youth had but the knowledge and old age the strength. - French Proverb

Old age is when the liver spots show through your gloves. - Phyllis Diller

Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life. - Daniel F E Auber

Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set. - Ralph Richardson

Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is first thought. - Emily Dickinson

Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man. - Leon Trotsky

Don't let aging get you down. It's too hard to get back up. - John Wagner

Man fools himself. He prays for a long life, and he fears an old age. - Chinese Proverb

Old age at least gives me an excuse for not being very good at things. - Thomas Sowell

Forget aging. If you're six feet above ground, it's a good day. - Faith Hill

I suppose real old age begins when one looks backward rather than forward. - May Sarton

Old age takes away what we've inherited and gives us what we've earned. - Gerald Brenan

Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending. - Anne Bradstreet

How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete. - C S Lewis

Children are a great comfort in your old age, and they help you reach it faster, too. - Lionel Kauffman

More people would live to a ripe old age if they weren't too busy providing for it. - Unknown

My comfort is, that old age, that ill layer-up of beauty, can do no more spoil upon my face. - William Shakespeare

Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth. - W Somerset Maugham

In youth the days are short and the years are long; in old age the years are short and the days are long. - Nikita I Panin

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age. - Thomas Bailey Aldrich

I'm learning in my old age that the only thing you can do to keep your sanity is to stay in the moment. - Willem Dafoe

While we drink, and call for garlands, for perfumes and for maidens, old age is creeping on us unperceived. - Juvenal

Autumn is really the best of the seasons; and I'm not sure that old age isn't the best part of life. - C S Lewis

Old age is when you resent the swimsuit issue of Sports Illustrated because there are fewer articles to read. - George Burns

In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the post, we have arrived. - Knut Hamsun

I'm grateful that I never was that senior athlete who realized she'd done nothing but train all her life. - Clara Hughes

I have this theory that chocolate slows down the aging process. It may not be true, but do I dare take the chance? - Unknown

May you keep dreaming until the day you die. May imagination overtake memory. May you die young at a ripe old age. - Mark Batterson

Not one of them who took up in his youth with his opinion that there are no gods ever continued until old age faithful to his conviction. - Plato

Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold you have escaped, not from one master, but from many. - Plato