Old Age Is Beautiful Quotes

#1. A happy youth, and their old age Is beautiful and free.

William Wordsworth

#2. To tell a woman who is forty, "You look like sixteen," is boloney. The blarney way of saying it is "Tell me how old you are, I should like to know at what age women are the most beautiful.

Fulton J. Sheen

#3. Women are beautiful when they're young, and not after. Men can still preserve their sex appeal well into old age ... Some men can maintain, if they embrace it ... cragginess, weary masculinity. Women just get old and fat and wrinkly.

Tracy Letts

#4. Who does not wish to be beautiful, and clever, and rich, and to have back, in old age, the time spent trying to be any of them.

Robert Breault

#5. I didn't fear old age. I was just becoming increasingly aware of the fact that the only people who said old age was beautiful were usually twenty-three years old.

Erma Bombeck

#6. Complaint is the largest tribute heaven receives and the sincerest part of our devotion.

Jonathan Swift

#7. Elizabeth's doze had deepened into real sleep. Once she might have been young and beautiful. Once she might have been some young man's dream baby. Now she was snoring with her mostly toothless mouth pointed at the ceiling. If there's a God, I think He needs to try a little harder.

Stephen King

#8. I urge young women to look ahead and see if they want to have a lonely old age or do they want to have what I have, which is the joy of 14 beautiful grandchildren.

Phyllis Schlafly

#9. The theme of the Bible is not that the world's not messy but that God's at work in the mess.

Matt Chandler

#10. In old age her voice had become thin as a bird's, but her reading was still beautiful to him.

Pauline Smith

#11. I do love live performing, but I'm not a stand-up naturally, and I don't like the lifestyle of working just in the evenings at clubs and stuff - not a natural gig-er.

Amy Hoggart

#12. As the imagination is set to look into the invisible and immaterial, it seems to attract something of their vitality; and though it can give nothing to the body to redeem it from years, it can give to the soul that freshness of youth in old age which is even more beautiful than youth in the young.

Henry Ward Beecher

#13. The heads of strong old age are beautiful beyond all grace of youth.

Robinson Jeffers

#14. I count Maxwell and Einstein, Eddington and Dirac, among "real" mathematicians. The great modern achievements of applied mathematics have been in relativity and quantum mechanics, and these subjects are at present at any rate, almost as "useless" as the theory of numbers.

G.H. Hardy

#15. How old are you?"
"Ten," answered Tangle.
"You don't look like it," said the lady.
"How old are you, please?" returned Tangle.
"Thousands of years old," answered the lady.
"You don't look like it," said Tangle.
"Don't I? I think I do. Don't you see how beautiful I am!

George MacDonald

#16. What God does, He does well.

Jean De La Fontaine

#17. I don't want power. I just object to idiots having power over me.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#18. The things which the child loves remain in the domain of the heart until old age. The most beautiful thing in life is that our souls remain hovering over the places where we once enjoyed ourselves. I am one of those who remembers those places regardless of distance or time.

Kahlil Gibran

#19. Well, it is a good thing he died young. Most men don't have the good sense to know
when to quit this earth. At least your husband didn't drag on and on like some do.

Karen Hawkins

#20. Bill Cosby is one of America's most successful black performers.

Renee Montagne

#21. I will age for you, if it pleases you. I will match you, wrinkle for wrinkle, grey hair for grey hair, crease for crease, wrinkle for wrinkle. You will be so beautiful when you are old.

Catherynne M Valente