This little composition, which is, alas, the last mortal sin of my old age.
Age Quotes
Age is another Shakespeare topic, followed by Byron, Longfellow, Seneca and La Rochefoucauld. The best-sourced lines range from sour to funny. Disraeli, in Vivian Grey (1826), hopes the heritage of old age is not despair. Emerson, in Society and Solitude (1870), says we do not count a man’s years until he has nothing else to count. George Carlin, in It’s Bad for Ya (2008), points out that one great thing about getting old is that you can get out of social obligations just by saying you’re tired.
Three entries are flagged: a passage on the feeling of no longer being a boy, credited to Anatole France, and one on providing for old age so that it may meditate, credited to Pearl S. Buck, are marked misattributed, and Dryden’s lines on old age creeping on with silent pace are disputed.
Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that happen to a man.
Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kind, sunshiny old age.
The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.
I turned sixty-five this year and I take old age seriously. There's work to be done.
And now in my old age, she has again become the girl of my dreams.
Old age, for it has seen and suffered much,
Brings aye some wisdom to the council board.
It is the common vice of all, in old age, to be too intent upon our interests.
Colleges are like old-age homes; except for the fact that more people die in colleges.
Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.