Old age is not a disease – it is strength and survivor-ship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.
Maggie Kuhn – American – Activist
Save your money. You’re going to need twice as much money in your old age as you think.
Michael Caine – English – Actor
Old age is just a record of one’s whole life.
Muhammad Ali – American – Athlete
What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.
Jean Paul German – Author
After you’re older, two things are possibly more important than any others: health and money.
Helen Gurley Brown American – Author
When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.
Victor Hugo – French – Author
The good thing about being old is not being young.
Stephen Richards – British – Author
Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.
Francois de la Rochefoucauld – French – Author
If I knew I was going to live this long, I’d have taken better care of myself.
MICKEY MANTLE – American – Baseball player
In youth, the days are short and the years are long. In old age, the years are short and days long.
Pope Paul VI – Italian – Clergyman
Old age is the verdict of life
Amelia Barr – American – Novelist
Old age isn’t a battle; old age is a massacre.
Philip Roth – American – Novelist
One of the things you realize about getting older is that not everybody is going to get older with you.
CORMAC MCCARTHY – American – Novelist
You read the past in some old faces.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY – British – Novelist
What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
Henry David Thoreau – American – Philosopher
Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
W. Somerset Maugham – British – Playwright
Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
W. Somerset Maugham – British – Playwright
Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years.
Pindar -Greek – Poet
A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.
Ausonius – Roman – Poet
Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.
Leon Trotsky – Russian – Revolutionary
Old people should be heard but not seen. Young people should be seen, not heard.
Grace Slick – American – Singer
The young people think that the old people are fools; but the old people know that the young people are fools!
Agatha Christie – English – Writer
There are no old people nowadays; they are either ‘wonderful for their age’ or dead.
Mary Pettibone Poole -Author
Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened.
Jennifer Yane – Author
Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.
Hosea Ballou – American – Clergyman
Old people were young people before young people were people
Tom Wyatt – Musician
Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age.
Booth Tarkington – American – Novelist
Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.
Thomas Carlyle – Scottish – Philosopher
Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.
Emily Dickinson – American – Poet
Not even old age knows how to love death.
Sophocles – Greek – Poet
Old age and the passage of time teach all things.
Sophocles – Greek – Poet
What the elders see while sitting the young ones standing on their toes won’t see.
African Proverbs