Old Quotes

Young men’s minds are always changeable, but when an old man is concerned in a matter, he looks both before and after.

There is only one value to having the look you have when you are young and no value to the look you have when you are older.

It is a triumph of life that old people lose their memories of inessential things.

You’re going to change as you grow older, and that messes up a lot of relationships.

Getting old is not for sissies.

There are three things that grow more precious with age; old wood to burn, old books to read, and old friends to enjoy.

Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.

The value of life is not in its duration, but in its donation. You are not important because of how long you live, you are important because of how effective you live. And most people are concerned about growing old rather than being effective.

I’m working on the world, revised, improved edition, featuring fun for fools blues for brooders, combs for bald pates, tricks for old dogs.

The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.