Benjamin Disraeli Quotes

Even hoar hairs [elderly scholars] have something to learn; and old age, it would seem, cannot in all respects be trusted for wisdom

I am too old to think.

Few people know how to be old.

I'm passionate about old people because I am one myself.

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.

After the age of 80, everything reminds you of something else.

I suppose the only thing at 50 you can really start to look forward to is just total irresponsibility. As you get older, you can just sit in a chair, wear anything you want, you know you can walk down; old people dress cool. You know they wear sweatpants. The elderly have it down.

The theme of old age doesn't seem to fascinate Hollywood.

I am in the prime of my senility.

Old politicians chew on wisdom past, And totter on in business to the last.

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?

Life has its trade-offs. As you age, you lose things like teeth and the ability to play in the ball pit at fast-food restaurants, and you gain things like experience and employer-based health insurance.

Now I am in my eighties, and I have known the joys and sorrows of a full life. Age, however, has its privileges. One is to reminisce, and another is to reminisce selectively.

I quite like being old.

The old idea that you grow wiser as you get older, and you learn from your elders, is actually completely wrong.

A lot of people are frightened by old age - by being around people who are, basically, on their way out - but I'm fascinated by it. It's an amazing thing to be around someone who has had a life well lived.

The fear of old age is something that one feels when they're younger. Once you get to being old, you're already there, so you don't even think about it anymore.

At 60, I could do the same things I could do at 30, if I could only remember what those things are.

Education is the best provision for old age.

As we grow older, our bodies get shorter and our anecdotes longer.

Particularly at around the age of 70 you reach a stage where you have to be very careful. If, at that point, you abandon the work you have been doing, there is a good chance that you will just collapse and drift.

I like gettin' old.

Old age isn't a battle; old age is a massacre.

I think that retirement is the first step towards the grave.

Hell, I'm an old man. I'm 70 years old. I'm supposed to be sitting on a rocking chair watching the sunset.