Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Do we all become garrulous and confidential as we approach the gates of old age? Is it that we instinctively feel, and cannot help asserting, our one advantage over the younger generation, which has so many over us? - the one advantage of time!

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

I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142. This is no time to be flitting about the earth. I must cease from the activities proper to youth and begin to take on the dignities and gravities and inertia proper to that season of honorable senility which is on its way.

The thing to remember about being young is you eventually get old.

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

I wouldn't be young again even if it were possible, but I am not going to pretend that growing old is all sweetness and light.

Age, what is it? It's not a figure that has ever meant anything to me.

Age - That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit.

The pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion.

A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.

To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

As time goes by and you're getting older and stuff like that - getting older sucks. You know, I hear all this crap about, 'Oh, you can age with dignity.' Really?

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.

Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

Age wins and one must learn to grow old.

Few people know how to be old.

I had a great time in my youth and I still feel youthful. I've no desire to look as though I'm in my 20s.

It's not the same thing to make a work - a film, a book, a play - about youth as it is to make one about old age.

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.

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

Age has been the perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth.

In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.

You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.