Harold MacMillan Quotes

Old fools are greater fools than young ones.

There is no fool to the old fool.

The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.

It is bad enough to see young fools, but worse to see old fools.

But old fools is the biggest fools there is.

You don't get to be old bein' no fool.

I was young and foolish then; now I am old and foolisher.

How ill white hairs become a fool and jester!

To a fool time brings only age not wisdom.

I was a buffoon and an idiot until the age of forty

There is, they say, no fool like an old fool.

There is no fool like an old fool.

The older a fool is, the worse he is.

My Father always told me that a fool at 40 is a fool for life.

The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools.

A man growing old becomes a child again.

It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a young fool. But the young fool has first to grow up to be an old fool to realize what a damn fool he was when he was a young fool.

Few people know how to be old.

It is a pledge that senility has not the last say in everything.

Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.

Hopes are like hair ornaments. Girls want to wear too many of them. When they become old women they look silly wearing even one.

What could be more beautiful than a dear old lady growing wise with age? Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

I am in the prime of my senility.

There is a certain phase in the life of the aged when the warmth of the heart seems to increase in direct proportion with the years.