Quotes about Old age

If you ever live to be as old as I am you will find many things strange." "You never seem old." "It is the body that is old. Sometimes I am afraid I will break off a finger as one breaks a stick of chalk. And the spirit is no older and not much wiser." "You are wise." "No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." "Perhaps that is wisdom." "It is a very unattractive wisdom.

What is it to be God's elect? It is to be denied in youth the wishes of youth, so as with great pains to get them fulfilled in old age.

Drunkenness, the ruin of reason, the destruction of strength, premature old age, momentary death.

To the loved ones with snowy crowns, I bequeath the happiness of old age, the love and gratitude of their children until they fall asleep.

Well-being changes as we move through life, which is why a child's version of it cannot be the same as an old person's.

Chastity is not chastity in an old man, but a disability to be unchaste.

That folly of old age which is called dotage is peculiar to silly old men, not to age itself.