Quotes About Life

The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.

The old age of an eagle is better than the youth of a sparrow.

Do you set down your name in the scroll of youth, that are written down old with all the characters of age?

Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.

Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.

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

I must confess, I was born at a very early age.

Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.

In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.

My age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.

We've put more effort into helping folks reach old age than into helping them enjoy it.

Young people don't know what age is, and old people forget what youth was.

Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.

The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.

Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy.

Youth lives on hope, old age on remembrance.

It is not the end of joy that makes old age so sad, but the end of hope.

Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age.

At middle age the soul should be opening up like a rose, not closing up like a cabbage.

Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years.

Why does a person even get up in the morning? You have breakfast, you floss your teeth so you'll have healthy gums in your old age, and then you get in your car and drive down I-10 and die. Life is so stupid I can't stand it.

Sex at age 90 is like trying to shoot pool with a rope.