One needs only eyes to see the necessary influence of old age on reason.
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.
When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.
Whoever escapes marriage
And women's harm, comes to deadly old age
Without any son to support him.
Personally we look forward to an old age of dissipation and indolence and unreverend disrepute.
Another of his sayings was, that education was the best viaticum of old age.
Everything is sad and ridiculous in old age. Even the fear of death.