This collection holds 312 old age quotes, drawn from writers, leaders, artists and thinkers across the QuoteForever archive. The most quoted voices here are Sophocles, Maurice Chevalier and Victor Hugo.

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Old age and the passage of time teach all things. - Sophocles

Old age and the passage of time teach all things.

Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative. - Maurice Chevalier

Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age. - Victor Hugo

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

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older ... - Francis Bacon

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than ... - W. Somerset Maugham

Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we ... - Thomas Carlyle

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

Nature abhors the old.

Old age is a shipwreck.

Old age is women's hell.

old folks is the nation.

Old age is life's parody.

I softened in my old age.

Old age is second childhood.

I'm too young to be this old.

In my old age, I'll be in L.A.

nobody ever intends to be old.

Old age is the verdict of life.

Old age is no place for sissies.

How young can you die of old age?

Old age is the harbor of all ills.

I've gotten crankier in my old age.

Old age transfigures or fossilizes.

In old age, mirror is not a friend!

Old age makes caricatures of us all.

Old age by nature is rather talkative.

Maybe I'll be a feminist in my old age.

I don't believe in giving in to old age.

Old age is an island surrounded by death.

Education is the best provision for old age.

Old age is perhaps life's decision about us.

Old age is just a record of one's whole life.

I'm getting older and mellower in my old age.

old age' is always ten years more than we are.

Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

Old age isn't a battle; old age is a massacre.

Old age is the Outpatient's Dept of purgatory.

Old age treats freelance writers pretty gently.

For me, old age is just something that happens.

I have the problems of, I must confess, old age.

It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Sometimes grown ups don't act their right old age

Old age learns about less after a lifetime of more.

To me - old age is always ten years older than I am.

No one should be alone in their old age, he thought.

We have a great regard for old age when it is bottled.

The fears of old age disturb us, yet how few attain it?

There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

When you're old, everything you do is sort of a miracle.

Be eccentric now. Don't wait for old age to wear purple.

Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.

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