What one has wished for in youth, in old age one has in abundance.
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, after all, is merely the punishment for having lived.
The tragedy of old age, when a man’s too weak to hit his own child.
Do not seek to possess either goods or fiefs for your old age.
19) Think before you make the coward's choice. Old age is not for sissies.
From extreme old age, sanity is requested. It is like asking for strength from weakness.