aging Quotes

Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.

Every man over forty is a scoundrel.

We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

Youth is wasted on the young.

You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub.

Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

Death means change our clothes. Clothes become old, then time to come change. So this body become old, and then time come, take young body.

Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.

As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.