Albert Einstein Quotes

The shades of respectability begin to close about the greying head.

Now that I'm over sixty I'm veering toward respectability.

There are so few who can grow old with a good grace.

He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.

You want to earn respect in your old age. You want to walk into a restaurant and have people say: 'There's Mickey Rourke. He was great in 'The Wrestler.' You don't want them jumping out of windows.

A hundred things are done today in the divine name of Youth, that if they showed their true colors would be seen by rights to belong rather to old age.

Being seventy is not a sin.

Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

I intend to grow old very disgracefully.

Why, I am about doing very well, for I am preparing myself, sir, for a place where hardly any majors, and very few Lieutenant-Generals go. God save us, why should there be such a bustle about the taking off of an old grey head that cannot get up three steps without two men to support it?

There is a way to grow old and still have dignity.

Years do not make sages; they only make old men.

Old age hath yet his honour and his toil.

The ordinariness of living to be old is too novel a thing to appreciate.

To be old is to be part of a huge and ordinary multitude... the reason why old age was venerated in the past was because it was extraordinary.

Judges don't age; time decorates them.

Few people know how to be old.

He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled.

I admire those people who hold on to their elegance in old age but I'd rather have fun.

I'm just growing old, darling. I don't know about gracefully.

When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.

It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

I'm interested in playing old ladies because I am becoming one. And I want to become a very good one!

As human beings we value the experience that comes with age. We are reminded over and over again with statements like 'older and wiser' and 'respect your elders,' promoting age as something to be cherished and respected.