Old quotes

“You know you're old if they have discontinued your blood type.” Phyllis Diller

“Old age is when the liver spots show through your gloves.” Phyllis Diller

“There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, "Truth is the daughter of Time."” Abraham Lincoln

“He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.” Abraham Lincoln

“Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.” Abraham Lincoln

“Someone told me that each equation I included in the book would halve the sales.” Stephen Hawking

“Begin, be bold and venture to be wise.” Horace

“Every old poem is sacred.” Horace

“Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.” Horace

“All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.” Plato

“Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.” Plato

“Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.” Plato

“I would fain grow old learning many things.” Plato

“I am not young but I feel young. The day I feel old, I will go to bed and stay there. J'aime la vie! I feel that to live is a wonderful thing.” Coco Chanel

“Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.” Karl Marx

“A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.” Aristotle

“Education is the best provision for old age.” Aristotle

“In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.” Aristotle

“Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.” Aristotle

“The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.” Aristotle

“To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.” Euripides

“Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head.” Euripides

“Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.” Euripides

“The bold are helpless without cleverness.” Euripides

“Silver and gold are not the only coin; virtue too passes current all over the world.” Euripides

“A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.” Stendhal

“Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman's destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.” Honore de Balzac

“Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.” Aldous Huxley

“The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.” Aldous Huxley

“What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.” Aldous Huxley