550 Quotes About Old-age

If you don't do anything stupid when you're young, you won't remember something funny when you're old.

Death would not surprise us as often as it does, if we let go of the misbelief that newborns are less mortal than the elderly.

A century ago, life screwed that poor man and me because we were too young, and now they want to do the same thing because we are too old.

Physics is becoming so unbelievably complex that it is taking longer and longer to train a physicist. It is taking so long, in fact, to train a physicist to the place where he understands the nature of physical problems that he is already too old to solve them.

Yes," he answered, "it's a strain being witty at my age. I'm giving it up.

Grandchildren are their grandparents' toys.

As a subconscious attempt to add meaning or purpose to their life: The unemployed pray for a job; the retired pray for grandchildren.

If you assume that the new - and simply because it's new - is always to be better than the old, chances are you've never known anything valuable.

It seems the older I get, the less I know.