Wonderful Quotes about Old Age

24 inciteful quotes about getting old...

Quotes about Old Age: Appreciation

~ First you are young; then you are middle-aged; then you are old; then you are wonderful.
Lady Diana Cooper (1892-1986) English socialite and actress

~ Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) English playwright, novelist, short-story writer

~ So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) U.S. abolitionist, author

~ If there is value in the young shoots of spring and the light of summer, then there must also be value in the mature trees of autumn and the grand sunsets of winter.
Daisaku Ikeda (born 1928) Japanese philosopher, Buddhist leader, author, poet, photographer, educator, pacifist

Really Short Quotes about Old Age: Attitude

~ It’s not how old you are, but how you are old.
Marie Dresler (1868-1934) Canadian Academy Award-winning film-and-stage actress

~ To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
Bernard Baruch (1870-1965) U.S. financier, stock-market speculator, statesman, presidential advisor

~ You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.
George Burns (1896-1996) U.S. comedian, actor, writer

~ It is important to remember that aging and growing old are not necessarily the same thing.
Daisaku Ikeda (born 1928) Japanese philosopher, Buddhist leader, author, poet, photographer, educator, pacifist

~ There’s a heck of a difference between getting older and getting old. Getting older’s inevitable. Getting old—or not—is a choice.
Alexandra Innes (born 1952) Brit-Canadian author, poet, YummyQuotes.com owner

Short Quotes about Old Age: Attitude

~ I fairly sizzle with zeal and enthusiasm, and do the things that ought to be done by me.
Charles Fillmore (1854-1948) U.S. New Thought mystic, at 94

~ Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) English playwright, novelist, short-story writer

~ We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing.
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) U.S. poet

~ The true definition of old age is that state wherein one has become bored with the world.
Paramhansa Yogananda (1893-1952) Indian yogi, meditation guru

~ There's no point in being unhappy about growing older. Just think of the millions who have been denied the privilege.
Cary Grant (1904-1986) English-born Hollywood film star

Longer Quotes about Old Age: Attitude

~ How did I git to be a hundred years old? Well, when I moves, I moves slow. When I sits, I sets loose. And when I worries, I goes to sleep.
Centenarian Appalachian Mountains woman

~ There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French Renaissance philosopher, humanist, author

Long Quotes about Old Age: Attitude

~ Our bodies may grow stiffer with the passing of time, but we should not let the same happen to our minds. The older we are, the more willing we should be to listen to others, especially young people.
Daisaku Ikeda (born 1928) Japanese philosopher, Buddhist leader, author, poet, photographer, educator, pacifist

~ No matter what our age, we cannot afford to let the flame within our heart grow dim. We do not become unhappy because we grow old. We become unhappy only when we grow ever more unwilling to change as we age.
Daisaku Ikeda (born 1928) Japanese philosopher, Buddhist leader, author, poet, photographer, educator, pacifist

~ Anyone who is wise and has lived long enough to witness the changes of fashion and morals and politics through the rise and fall of three generations should be perfectly satisfied to rise from his seat and go away saying, "It was a good show," when the curtain falls.
Lin Yutang (1895-1976) Chinese writer, inventor

Quotes about Old Age: Dreams

~ A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.
John Barrymore (1882-1942) U.S. stage-and-film actor

~ You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
Les Brown (born 1945) African-American motivational speaker, coach, author

Quotes about Old Age: Society

~ A society that doesn’t treasure the knowledge, experience and wisdom of the elders is in trouble.
Dr. David Suzuki (born 1936) Japanese-Canadian scientist, environmentalist, broadcaster

~ We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next.
Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973) U.S. humanitarian, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer

~ Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members.
Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973) U.S. humanitarian, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer

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