 A woman tells her doctor, 'I've got a bad back.' The doctor says, 'It's old age.' The woman says, 'I want a second opinion.' The doctor says: 'Okay - you're ugly as well.' Author: Tommy Cooper |
| Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength. Author: Betty Friedan |
| A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world. Author: Maurice Chevalier |
| Not even old age knows how to love death. Author: Sophocles |
| Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity. Author: Geoffrey Chaucer |
| Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought. Author: Emily Dickinson |
| From birth to death, anyone can fish. I just think it's fantastic to see old people going fishing with young people and teaching them things. I'm very, very critical. Author: Rex Hunt |
| I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am. Author: Francis Bacon |
| Old men do it better. We're not so sensitive in certain areas. Author: Robert Plant |
| Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair. Author: Ira Gershwin |
| Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age. Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero |
| Sure I'm for helping the elderly. I'm going to be old myself someday. Author: Lillian Gordy Carter |
| The crucial task of old age is balance: keeping just well enough, just brave enough, just gay and interested and starkly honest enough to remain a sentient human being. Author: Florida Scott-Maxwell |
| Old age is just a record of one's whole life. Author: Muhammad Ali |
| Pretend to be dumb, that's the only way to reach old age. Author: Friedrich Durrenmatt |
| Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young. Author: Dorothy Canfield Fisher |
| The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long. Author: A. J. P. Taylor |
| Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do. Author: Golda Meir |
| What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories. Author: W. Somerset Maugham |
| Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age. Author: Booth Tarkington |
