Old Quotes

When I was a kid the adults told us what to do: now the kids are telling me what to do; when do I get my ups?

It is a hopeless endeavour to unite the contrarieties of spring and winter; it is unjust to claim the priveleges of age, and retain the play-things of childhood.

I find that a man is as old as his work. If his work keeps him from moving forward, he will look forward with the work.

Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.

The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.

I’ll tell ‘ya how to stay young: Hang around with older people.

I am long on ideas, but short on time. I expect to live to be only about a hundred.

I feel very old sometimes… I carry on and would not like to die before having emptied a few more buckets of shit on the heads of my fellow men.

Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so.