We come fresh to the different stages of life, and in each of them we are quite inexperienced, no matter how old we are.
Old Quotes
It is a man’s own fault, it is from want of use, if his mind grow torpid in old age.
This increase in the life span and in the number of our senior citizens presents this nation with increased opportunities: the opportunity to draw upon their skill and sagacity – and the opportunity to provide the respect and recognition they have earned. It is not enough for a great nation merely to have added new […]
Few people know how to be old.
In the decline of life shame and grief are of short duration; whether it be that we bear easily what we have borne long; or that, finding ourselves in age less regarded, we less regard others; or, that we look with slight regard upon afflictions to which we know that the hand of death is […]
I’m like old wine. They don’t bring me out very often, but I’m well preserved. (on her 100th birthday, 1991)
The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.
There is a wicked inclination in most people to suppose an old man decayed in his intellect. If a young or middle-aged man, when leaving a company, does not recollect where he laid his hat, it is nothing; but if the same inattention is discovered in an old man, people will shrug up their shoulders, […]
A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. “I reckon,” he said, with a twinkle in his eye, “it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried.”
It ought to be lovely to be old, To be full of the peace that comes with experience And wrinkled ripe fulfilment.
