Old Age

The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.

Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.

One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up.

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.

Forty is the old age of youth fifty the youth of old age.

Old age and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance.

Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age.

Not even old age knows how to love death.

The themes that make one laugh always stem from poverty, hunger, misery, old age, sickness, and death. These are the themes that make Italians laugh, anyway.

The three touchstones that woke Buddha up - sickness, old age, and death - are a pretty good place to start when crafting a tragic tale. And if we need to get more specific: heartbreak, destruction, miscomprehension, natural disasters, betrayal, and the waste of human potential.

Old age is not a disease - it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.

Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

There has been enough suffering in our country, there has been enough of children whose dreams die before they have a chance to grow and there has been enough of our elders who, having served their nation, are forced into indignity in their old age.

I don't mind being older. I'm proud of my age. I've achieved a lot. It's the same thing with Mick and the Stones. They should be revered and respected. Isn't it strange that now we're living longer we have so much less respect for old age? Perhaps it's a less valuable commodity?

He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled.

Those who have no hope pass their old age shrouded with an inward gloom.

Old age is no place for sissies.

Cherish all your happy moments they make a fine cushion for old age.