Jacques Barzun Quotes

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.

It's no fun getting older. I might be wearing beautiful diamond earrings, but they can't take away the pain of losing my hearing.

Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

You feel you can pretend to be young until you're 50, but after that, what happens and how do you approach it?

Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.

I’m not young anymore. I don’t wanna start over again.

When you get old, everything changes - your body changes, your family changes. You can't do what you've always done, anymore. And, either you can complain about things changing - or you can be content. Instead of complaining, you can say: "Oh, yesss! Look at all this change!" You can welcome it.

Growing old is not a gradual decline, but a series of drops, full of sorrow, from one ledge to another below it.

It's tough getting older. You start falling apart, you know? My gums are starting to recede now. You can't tell tonight, though, 'cause I comb them forward.

I don't know how you feel about old age... but in my case I didn't even see it coming. It hit me from the rear.

Old age ain't for sissies

There is no place in which to hide when Age comes seeking for his bride.

Old age is second childhood.

We hope to grow old and we dread old age; that is to say, we love life and we flee from death.

We are but older children, dear, Who fret to find our bedtime near.

After age 70, it's patch, patch, patch.

In every age of transition men are never so firmly bound to one way of life as when they are about to abandon it.

Often it is fatal to live too long.

The easiest thing for our friends to discover in us, and the hardest thing for us to discover in ourselves, is that we are growing old.

All would live long, but none would be old.

As long as you're learning you're not old.

Some old women and men grow bitter with age; the more their teeth drop out, the more biting they get.

In old age the secret springs of human nature are apt to come out.