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William Shakespeare3 quotes
My age is as a lusty winter,
Frosty but kindly. — William Shakespeare · 1616How much more elder art thou than thy looks! — William Shakespeare · 1598They say an old man is twice a child. — William Shakespeare · 1616Andy Dwyer1 quote
They're old people. They eat, they sleep, they complain, they watch Family Feud. Oh my god, I wanna be an old person. — Andy Dwyer · 2014Aristophanes1 quote
The old are in a second childhood. — Aristophanes · 423 BCBernard Baruch1 quote
To me old age is always fifteen years older than I am. — Bernard Baruch · 1955Bion of Borysthenes1 quote
Old age is the harbor of all ills. — Bion of Borysthenes · 240Charles Churchill1 quote
Old-age, a second child, by Nature cursed
With more and greater evils than the first,
Weak, sickly, full of pains; in ev'ry breath
Railing at life, and yet afraid of death. — Charles Churchill · 1764Cicero1 quote
Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act. — Cicero · 44 BCDylan Thomas1 quote
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. — Dylan Thomas · 1951Edward Gibbon1 quote
The abbreviation of time, and the failure of hope, will always tinge with a browner shade the evening of life. — Edward Gibbon · 1794Henri Estienne1 quote
If youth knew; if age could. — Henri Estienne · 1594Herman Melville1 quote
Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death. — Herman Melville · 1851Jerry Seinfeld1 quote
You know how old people drive? They drive slow, they sit low. That is their motto. The state flag of Florida should be just a steering wheel with a hat and two knuckles on it. — Jerry Seinfeld · 1998Job1 quote
With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding. — Job · 500 BCJonathan Franzen1 quote
She was seventy-five and she was going to make some changes in her life. — Jonathan Franzen · 2001Jonathan Swift1 quote
Every man desires to live long; but no man would be old. — Jonathan Swift · 1727Joseph Campbell (poet)1 quote
As a white candle
In a holy place,
So is the beauty
Of an aged face. — Joseph Campbell (poet) · 1913Julian Barnes1 quote
It strikes me that this may be one of the differences between youth and age: when we are young, we invent different futures for ourselves; when we are old, we invent different pasts for others. — Julian Barnes · 2011Mitch Robbins1 quote
Value this time in your life kids, because this is the time in your life when you still have your choices, and it goes by so fast. When you're a teenager, you think you can do anything, and you do. Your twenties are a blur. Your thirties, you raise your family, you make a little money and you think to yourself, "What happened to my twenties?" Your forties, you grow a little pot belly you grow another chin. The music starts to get too loud and one of your old girlfriends from high school becomes a grandmother. Your fifties you have a minor surgery. You'll call it a procedure, but it's a surgery. Your sixties you'll have a major surgery, the music is still loud but it doesn't matter because you can't hear it anyway. Seventies, you and the wife retire to Fort Lauderdale, you start eating dinner at two o'clock in the afternoon, you have lunch around ten, breakfast the night before, you spend most of your time wandering around malls looking for the ultimate soft yogurt and muttering, "how come the kids don't call? How come the kids don't call?" The eighties, you'll have a major stroke, and you end up babbling to some Jamaican nurse who your wife can't stand but who you call mama. Any questions? — Mitch Robbins · 1991Mr. Bernstein1 quote
Just old age. It's the only disease, Mr. Thompson, you don't look forward to being cured of. — Mr. Bernstein · 1941Oscar Wilde1 quote
The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young. — Oscar Wilde · 1890Roger Murtaugh1 quote
I'm too old for this shit! — Roger Murtaugh · 1987Solon1 quote
Old to grow, but ever learning. — Solon · 119Sydney Smith1 quote
That sign of old age: extolling the past at the expense of the present. — Sydney Smith · 1845Terry Pratchett1 quote
Inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened. — Terry Pratchett · 1990The Who1 quote
I hope I die before I get old. — The Who · 1965Thomas Campbell1 quote
Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore,
And coming events cast their shadows before. — Thomas Campbell · 1802