Theocritus Quotes

If I had been helping the Almighty when he created man, I would have had him begin at the other end, and start human beings with old age. How much better to start old and have all the bitterness and blindness of age in the beginning!

The truth is I'm getting old, I said. We already are old, she said with a sigh. What happens is that you don't feel it on the inside, but from the outside everybody can see it.

Slowly and imperceptibly old age comes creeping on.

The older we get, the swifter time seems to pass and the quicker memories seem to fade.

Nobody stays young forever.

I don't sing as well as I used to. Nor does anyone else in their 60s.

To grow up requires a whole life but to become old one night is enough.

You're aging when your actions creak louder than your words.

Old age is a strange country, and most of us enter it unwillingly.

Old age is fifteen years older than I am.

Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.

Just as darkness is sometimes defined as the absence of light, so age is defined as the absence of youth.

Here's a song was never sung: Growing old is dying young.

'Aging' has been bad ever since we figured out it led to dying.

Age is an ugly thing, and it goes on getting worse.

I am 54 and age is slowly writing itself on my face.

The old age of lower mammals presents characters similar to those found in man.

Everyone must accept that we will age and age is not always flattering.

Every time I think that I am getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

It doesn't seem like it's been 50 years. I don't even feel like I'm 50 years old yet, though I've had all these knee and back operations.

Everyone gets old - there's nothing you can do about it.

You get old, you slow down.

If you're not getting older, you're dead.

Age carries all things away, even the mind.