The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude.
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.
Inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened.
People don't grow up — they just begin to overestimate their own importance.
Old age is the most unexpected of things that can happen to a man.
Some smack of age in you, some relish of the saltness of time.
On Being Old. It's not nice but take comfort that you won't stay that way for ever.
Either a peaceful old age awaits me, or death flies round me with black wings.
Age is deformed, youth unkind,
We scorn their bodies, they our mind.
The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young.
An aged man is but a paltry thing,
A tattered coat upon a stick, unless
Soul clap its hands and sing.
Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer.
I swear she's no chicken; she's on the wrong side of thirty, if she be a day.