OLD
AGE

See also: Age; Ages of man

Do not regret growing older. It is a privilege denied to many.

Author unknown

To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.

Albert Camus

Old age isn’t so bad when you consider the alternative.

Maurice Chevalier 1888–1972

You old people, don’t think you are becoming better just because you are becoming deader.

Dr Manfred Gutzke

In the evening of our lives we shall be examined in love.

John of the Cross

He that lives, must grow old; and he that would rather grow old than die, has God to thank for the infirmities of old age.

Samuel Johnson

Accept it, adjust to it, adorn it.

Guy King

Grey hairs are a proof of age, but not of wisdom.

Menander

My memory is nearly gone, but I remember two things: that I am a great sinner, and that Christ is a great Savior.

John Newton, aged 82

What you and I become in the end will be just more and more of what we are deciding and trying to be right now.

John Powell

We fool ourselves. We pray for a long life, and fear old age.

Chinese proverb

[During the Boxer Rebellion of 1900, the China Inland Mission was suffering great losses, and every telegram brought more tragic news of Christians being killed, property being confiscated, and workers scattered. The mission’s founder, the elderly J. Hudson Taylor, was in Switzerland and under orders to rest because of ill health. His heart ached for his coworkers in China. When things were at their worst, he said,] “I cannot read; I cannot think; I cannot even pray; but I can trust.”

Hudson Taylor

Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.

Samuel Ullman