Quotes About Old age

You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.

When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

Every citizen will be able, in his productive years when he is earning, to insure himself against the ravages of illness in his old age.

A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.

The rest of all the acts of Asa, and all his might, and all that he did, and the cities which he built, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? Nevertheless in the time of his old age he was diseased in his feet.

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.

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

Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age.

Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.

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.

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

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

Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife; This simple boon I beg of Fate - A thousand years of Middle Life.

Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.

If youth but had the knowledge and old age the strength.

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.

In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.

The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.

Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.

For in all the world there are no people so piteous and forlorn as those who are forced to eat the bitter bread of dependency in their old age, and find how steep are the stairs of another man's house. Wherever they go they know themselves unwelcome. Wherever they are, they feel themselves a burden. There is no humiliation of the spirit they are not forced to endure. Their hearts are scarred all over with the stabs from cruel and callous speeches.

It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.

Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

In our daily lives problems are bound to arise. The biggest problems in our lives are the ones that we inevitably have to face, like old age, illness, and death. Trying to avoid our problems or simply not thinking about them may provide temporary rel.