Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old elderly quotes, elderly sayings, and elderly proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.
List Of Motivational Elderly Quotes And Sayings
Too many people, when they get old, think that they have to live by the calendar.
John Glenn
The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young.
Oscar Wilde
Do not try to live forever, you will not succeed.
George Bernard Shaw
The wiser mind mourns less for what age takes away than what it leaves behind.
William Wordsworth
The glory of the elderly is their insight into life.
Lailah Gifty Akita
The old are in a second childhood.
Aristophanes
Never tease an old dog; he might have one bite left.
Robert A. Heinlein
Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.
Coco Chanel
Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.
Ralph B. Perry
You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older.
Anouk Aimee
Best Inspirational Elderly Quotes And Proverbs
Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
W. Somerset Maugham
It doesn’t behoove elderly persons to follow fashion in their thinking nor in the way they dress.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Old age hath yet his honor and his toil.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
The way the elderly are treated, and in some cases warehoused and medicated, rather than nurtured and listened to, is distressing.
Bill Nighy
Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.
Leon Trotsky
The elderly have so much to offer. They’re our link with history.
John Cusack
He thought that the world would make more rapid progress without the burden of old people.
Gabriel García Márquez
You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.
Woody Allen
Live your life and forget your age.
Norman Vincent Peale
Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.
J. K. Rowling
Famous Humorous Elderly Quotes And Proverbs
As we grow older, we must discipline ourselves to continue expanding, broadening, learning, keeping our minds active and open.
Clint Eastwood
You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as your despair.
Douglas Macarthur
None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.
Henry David Thoreau
One of the things you realize about getting older is that not everybody is going to get older with you.
Cormac Mccarthy
They only name things after you when you’re dead or really old.
George H. W. Bush
To know how to grow old is the masterwork of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
Henri Frederic Amiel
By the time you’re eighty years old you’ve learned everything. You only have to remember it.
George Burns
We are not limited by our old ages; we are liberated by it.
Stu Mittleman
About the only thing that comes without effort is old age.
Anonymous
By the time you’re eighty years old you’ve learned everything. You only have to remember it.
Bill Vaughan