Top Old Age Quotes

Education is the best provision for old age.

Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.

Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age.

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

Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent.

With great abilities come great responsibilities; great power comes with great assignments.With great age comes great reasoning; great actions come great experience.With great battles come great victo...

[O]ver the years I travelled to another universe. However alert we are, however much we think we know what will happen, antiquity remains an unknown, unanticipated galaxy. It is alien, and old people...

Prayer of an Anonymous Abbess:Lord, thou knowest better than myself that I am growing older and will soon be old. Keep me from becoming too talkative, and especially from the unfortunate habit of thin...

Save your money. You're going to need twice as much money in your old age as you think.

With regard to things such as independence, mental capabilities, and sexuality, a very old man is nothing but a gigantic infant with white hair and wrinkles.

Death would not surprise us as often as it does, if we let go of the misbelief that newborns are less mortal than the elderly.

Your youth is certainly finished and old age has definitely arrived if you feel that you are losing enthusiasm, excitement and energy towards your dreams and goals.

A beautiful woman should always have at the back of her mind that her ravishing appearance is only an ephemeral quality. When she wakes up in the morning, looks into the mirror, and notices that somet...

You cannot afford to gamble your youth only for fun.

Memory in youth is active and easily impressible in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier years.

Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age.

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

It always a blessing to learn the wisdom from elderly people.

Unless a writer is extremely old when he dies, in which case he has probably become a neglected institution, his death must always be seen as untimely. This is because a real writer is always shifting...

I'm past competing in pissing contests. My jet stream is now more of a trickle. The only contest I'd win is the number of trips to the bathroom it takes to purge a 32oz soda.