Famous Quotes about Old Age - 1

Mark Twain

When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to do it.

Mark Twain

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.

Jonathan Swift

I'm as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.

Jonathan Swift

Every man desires to live long, but no man would be old.

John Barrymore

A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.

H L Mencken

The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

Groucho Marx

Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.

Benjamin Franklin

All would live long, but none would be old.

Benjamin Disraeli

Youth is a blunder, manhood a struggle, old age a regret.

Victor Hugo

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