The hardest years in life are those between ten
and seventy
- Helen Hayes (at 73)
In my youth, I stressed freedom, and in my old age
I stress order. I have made the great discovery
that liberty is a product of order.
- Will Durant
People like you and I, though mortal of course
like everyone else, do not grow old no matter how
long we live...[We] never cease to stand like
curious children before the great mystery into
which we were born.
- Albert Einstein
in a letter to Otto Juliusburger
The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in
the strength and security derived from the
inquiring mind. Wisdom too often never comes, and
so one ought not to reject it merely because it
comes late. Old age and sickness bring out the
essential characteristics of a man.
- Felix Frankfurter
It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity
that great things are achieved, but by reflection,
force of character, and judgment; in these
qualities old age is usually not only not poorer,
but is even richer.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
A man is only as old as the woman he feels.
- Groucho Marx
(1890-1977)
US comedian
Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die
of old age, but they die young.
- Sir Arthur Wing Pinero (1855-1934)
No one can help you in holding a good job except
Old Man You.
- Edgar Watson Howe
We must always have old memories and young hopes.
- Arsene Houssaye
I cannot sing the old songs I sang long years ago,
For heart and voice would fail me, And foolish
tears would flow.
- Charlotte Barnard
Growing old is no more than a bad habit that a
busy person has not time to for.
- Andre Maurois
Inside every old person is a young person saying.
"What the **** happened?"
- Unknown
The best mirror is an old friend.
- George Herbert
The best antiques are old friends.
- Unknown
O, it is excellent Old age is an excellent time
for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one
outrageous thing every week
- Maggie Kuhn
Experience is a great advantage. The problem is
that when you get the experience, you're too
damned old to do anything about it.
- Jimmy Conners
Age doesn't always bring wisdom. Sometimes age
comes alone.
- Unknown
Beautiful young people are accidents of nature,
But beautiful old people are works of art.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The old man laughed loud and joyously, shook up
the details of his anatomy from head to foot, and
ended by saying such a laugh was money in a man's
pocket, because it cut down the doctor's bills
like anything.
- Mark Twain
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant
I could hardly stand to have the old man around.
But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how
much the old man had learned in seven years.
- Mark Twain
Bringing Up Father
Many people think old age is a disease, something
to be thwarted if possible. But someone has said
that if any period is a disease, it is youth Age
is recovering from it.
- T. C. Myers
A man is not old until regrets take the place of
dreams.
- John Barrymore
Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be.
- Robert Browning