Aristophanes Quotes

Old age is - a lot of crossed off names in an address book.

The aged are terrible - mere heaps of cinders on the grass from which none can tell how tall the flames once were or what company gathered round them.

There is nothing against which an old man should be so much upon his guard as putting himself to nurse.

In my opinion, everybody is getting older and older. We have a great deal of dementia because nobody grew old enough to get it.

Old age, after all, is merely the punishment for having lived.

Florida was a living tomb, she used to tell anyone who'd listen, an old-age home in the shape of a state, God's little waiting room, as she was fond of quoting.

Old age is life's parody.

No one should be alone in their old age, he thought.

Old age is rather like another country. You will enjoy it more if you have prepared yourself before you go.

How good we all are, in theory, to the old; and how in fact we wish them to wander off like old dogs, die without bothering us, and bury themselves.

Since people are going to be living longer and getting older, they'll just have to learn how to be babies longer.

You know, I have found a new way to get high and stay spaced out for hours on end, and the government can't stop me... It's called senility.

Sure, I'm for helping the elderly. I'm going to be old myself someday.

I felt rather exhausted, and wondered, rather shocked at my callous thought, why old people were sometimes such a strain. Worse than young children or puppies because one had to be polite.

... a gaggle of old ladies is glued to the window at the end of the hall like children or jailbirds. They're spidery and frail, their hair as fine as mist. Most of them are a good decade younger than me, and this astounds me. Even as your body betrays you, your mind denies it.--There are five of them now, white headed old things huddled together and pointing crooked fingers at the glass.

And now that the Greatest Generation is getting older, I think it is the responsibility of all Americans to make sure we do our part for America's seniors. You have earned the best of America -- and we need to make sure you get the protection and health care you deserve.

old folks is the nation.

Certainly, old age is often incompatible with certain roles and responsibilities.

it sucks to get old...but there's always beer

Pain for the old was no longer a surprise.

It's not easy getting old, you know. Things become a lot less clear.

It is a triumph of life that old people lose their memories of inessential things.

Growing old beats the alternative - dying young.

I'm sixty-five and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics, but if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be forty-eight.

When people become elders - when they're older; they can be old without being an elder, really. They [can] just be old and not very useful.