Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.
—Satchel Paige (1906–82) American Baseball Player
Though every old man has been young, and every young one hopes to be old, there seems to be a most unnatural misunderstanding between those two stages of life. This unhappy want of commerce arises from arrogance or exultation in youth, and irrational despondence or self-pity in age.
—Richard Steele (1672–1729) Irish Writer, Politician
All diseases run into one, old age.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher
Youthful follies growing on old age, are like the few young shoots on the bare top of an old stump of an oak.
—John Foster Dulles (1888–1959) American Republican Public Official, Lawyer
Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.
—Louis Kronenberger (1904–80) American Drama, Literary Critic
You know you’re getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
—Bob Hope (1903–2003) British-born American Comedian
Old age is the repose of life; the rest that precedes the rest that remains.
—Robert Collier (1885–1950) American Self-Help Author
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 can never be so in mind.
—Cicero (106BCE–43BCE) Roman Philosopher, Orator, Politician, Lawyer
It is a characteristic of old age to find the progress of time accelerated. The less one accomplishes in a given time, the shorter does the retrospect appear.
—Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767–1835) German Philosopher, Linguist, Statesman
There is this difference between the grief of youth and that of old age: youth’s burden is lightened by as much of it as another shares; old age may give and give, but the sorrow remains the same.
—O. Henry (William Sydney Porter) (1862–1910) American Writer of Short Stories
We hope to grow old, yet we fear old age; that is, we are willing to live, and afraid to die.
—Jean de La Bruyere (1645–96) French Satiric Moralist, Author
Old age has been charged with being insensible to pleasure and to the 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.
—Cicero (106BCE–43BCE) Roman Philosopher, Orator, Politician, Lawyer
Growing old isn’t so bad when you consider the alternative.
—Maurice Chevalier (1888–1972) French Actor, Singer
Old age deprives the intelligent man only of qualities useless to wisdom.
—Joseph Joubert (1754–1824) French Writer, Moralist
That sign of old age, extolling the past at the expense of the present.
—Sydney Smith (1771–1845) English Clergyman, Essayist, Wit
The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young.
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish Poet, Playwright
Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.
—Cicero (106BCE–43BCE) Roman Philosopher, Orator, Politician, Lawyer
Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.
—Leon Trotsky (1879–1940) Russian Marxist Revolutionary
Old age is when the liver spots show through your gloves.
—Phyllis Diller (b.1917) American Actor, Comedian
The fears of old age disturb us, yet how few attain it?
—Jean de La Bruyere (1645–96) French Satiric Moralist, Author
Old age is a shipwreck.
—Charles de Gaulle (1890–1970) French General, Statesman
Old age is a tyrant who forbids, at the penalty of life, all the pleasures of youth.
—Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613–80) French Writer
To know how to grow old is the master-work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
—Henri Frederic Amiel (1821–81) Swiss Moral Philosopher, Poet, Critic
One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up.
—Malcolm Muggeridge (1903–90) English Journalist, Author, Media Personality, Satirist
Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.
—Walt Whitman (1819–92) American Poet, Essayist, Journalist, American, Poet, Essayist, Journalist
When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil’s leavings.
—Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) Irish Satirist
Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.
—Felix Frankfurter (1882–1965) American Judge
Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young and at last die in youth even when in years would count as old.
—Tryon Edwards (1809–94) American Theologian, Author
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