# Quotes about old age - Quotes: 10 - Authors: 6 - Topic page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/old-age ## Quotes > What’s the justification for ancestor worship? You know what happens to a man without modern geriatrics: as he ages his brain cells start to die. Yet people tend to respect him, to listen to him. [Larry Niven](https://www.leafyquotes.com/larry-niven.md) · [Protector](https://www.leafyquotes.com/larry-niven/protector.md) · p. 86 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/larry-niven/protector/whats-the-justification.md) Topics: [old age](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/old-age.md) > Man proposes and old age disposes— [Isaac Asimov](https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov.md) · [I, Asimov](https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov/i-asimov.md) · p. 356 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov/i-asimov/man-proposes-and.md) Topics: [old age](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/old-age.md) > As one gets older and more rickety, and as medical technology advances, doctors love to play with their toys, using you as their victim. [Isaac Asimov](https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov.md) · [I, Asimov](https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov/i-asimov.md) · p. 131 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov/i-asimov/as-one-gets.md) Topics: [old age](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/old-age.md) > It is amazing how the young women flock about me now that I’m old and harmless. Where were they when I could have taken wicked advantage of their affection? [Isaac Asimov](https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov.md) · [I, Asimov](https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov/i-asimov.md) · p. 515 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov/i-asimov/it-is-amazing.md) Topics: [humor](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor.md), [old age](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/old-age.md) > On the QE2, I devoured caviar every chance I had, while Janet loved the chocolate soufflés. We both reveled in beef Wellington, and a lucky thing too, for, as we found out, as one grows older the doctors take you off any kind of food that tastes good, and it’s just as well we ate it while we could. [Isaac Asimov](https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov.md) · [I, Asimov](https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov/i-asimov.md) · p. 416 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov/i-asimov/on-the-qe2.md) Topics: [old age](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/old-age.md) > I thought that young people had more problems than old people, and I hoped I could last until I was older so I wouldn't have all those problems. Then I looked around and saw that everybody who looked young had young problems and that everybody who looked old had old problems. The "old" problems to me looked easier to take than the "young" problems. So I decided to go gray so nobody would know now old I was and I would look younger to them than how old they thought I was. I would gain a lot by going gray: (1) I would have old problems, which were easier to take than young problems, (2) everyone would be impressed by how young I looked, and (3) I would be relieved of the responsibility of acting young—I could occasionally lapse into eccentricity or senility and no one would think anything of it because of my gray hair. When you've got gray hair, every move you make seems "young" and "spry," instead of just being normally active. It's like you're getting a new talent. So I dyed my hair gray when I was about twenty-three or twenty-four. The Philosophy of Andy Warhol Topics: [old age](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/old-age.md) > I mean, so what if some fifty-eight-year-old butt-head gets a load on and starts playing Death Race 2000 in the rush-hour traffic jam? What kind of chance is he taking? He's just waiting around to see what kind of cancer he gets anyway. But if young, talented you, with all of life's possibilities at your fingertips, you and the future Cheryl Tiegs there, so fresh, so beautiful — if the two of you stake your handsome heads on a single roll of the dice in life's game of stop-the-semi — now that's taking chances! Which is why old people rarely risk their lives. It's not because they're chicken — they just have too much dignity to play for small stakes. Republican Party Reptile Topics: [old age](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/old-age.md) > The remote control had 48 buttons. No resident of the Old Farts Senile Dying Center knew how to operate it. They were the Greatest Generation, men and women who had survived the Depression, defeated the Nazis, built America into the greatest nation the world had ever seen. But this damned gizmo had beaten them. (Chapter 4) [Dave Barry](https://www.leafyquotes.com/dave-barry.md) · [Tricky Business](https://www.leafyquotes.com/dave-barry/tricky-business.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/dave-barry/tricky-business/the-remote-control.md) Topics: [old age](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/old-age.md) > The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened. It's only the middle-aged who are really conscious of their limitations [...]. [Saki](https://www.leafyquotes.com/saki.md) · [The Complete Short Stories](https://www.leafyquotes.com/saki/the-complete-short-stories.md) · spoken by Reginald · Reginald · Reginald at the Carlton · p. 25 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/saki/the-complete-short-stories/the-young-have-aspirations-that-never-come-to.md) Topics: [old age](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/old-age.md) > The reason one's elders know so comparatively little is because they have to unlearn so much that they acquired by way of education before we were born. [Saki](https://www.leafyquotes.com/saki.md) · [The Complete Short Stories](https://www.leafyquotes.com/saki/the-complete-short-stories.md) · Reginald · Reginald on Worries · p. 20 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/saki/the-complete-short-stories/the-reason-ones-elders-know-so-comparatively-little.md) Topics: [old age](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/old-age.md)