Old Quotes

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

If you wouldst live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.

The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

All would live long; but none would be old.

Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.

I am saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.

Aging is not ‘lost youth’ but a new stage of opportunity and strength.

The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.