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| Age is a sorry travelling companion. Danish. | 1 |
| Age is venerable in man and would be in woman if ever she became old. Punch. | 2 |
| Age makes many a man white but not better. Danish. | 3 |
| Few persons know how to be old. | 4 |
| Good-morrow, spectacles; farewell, lasses. French. | 5 |
| Gray beard and red lip seldom remain good friends. German. | 6 |
| He that would be long an old man must begin early to be one. Spectator. | 7 |
| He that would be old long must begin betimes. Portuguese. | 8 |
| He wrongs not an old man who steals his supper from him. | 9 |
| In telling the age of another, multiply by two; in telling your own, divide by two. Punch. | 10 |
| It has been a great misfortune to many a one that he lived too long. | 11 |
| It is difficult to grow old gracefully. | 12 |
| It is the common failing of old men to attribute all wisdom to themselves. Fielding. | 13 |
Let me play the fool
With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. Shakespeare. | 14 |
| Most old men are like old trees, past bearing themselves, will suffer no young plants to flourish beneath them. Pope. | 15 |
| No man is so old but thinks he may live another day. Pythagoras. | 16 |
| No old age agreeable but that of a wise man. | 17 |
| Old age brings companions with it. German. | 18 |
| Old age comes uncalled. German. | 19 |
| Old age is a troublesome guest. German. | 20 |
| Old age is honorable. | 21 |
| Old age has deformities enough of its own, do not add the deformity of vice. Cato. | 22 |
| Old age itself is a disease. Terence. | 23 |
| Old age, though despised, is coveted by all. | 24 |
| Old men are twice children. | 25 |
| Old men do not readily form friendships because they are not easily susceptible of pleasure. Aristotle. | 26 |
| Old men who have loved young company have been of long life. Bacon. | 27 |
| Old people see best in the distance. German. | 28 |
| Poverty and age suit very ill together. Burke. | 29 |
| Save for the man on the white horse. (For old age.) | 30 |
| Secure the three things, virtue, wealth and happiness, they will serve as a staff in old age. Tamil. | 31 |
| The old have every day something new. German. | 32 |
| The old man who dances furnishes the devil fine sport. German. | 33 |
| The old man who is loved is winter with flowers. German. | 34 |
| The old man’s counsel is half deed. German. | 35 |
| The old man’s staff is the rapper at death’s door. | 36 |
| The oldest man that ever lived died at last. Gaelic. | 37 |
| ’Tis late ere an old man comes to know he is old. | 38 |
| What the old man does is always right. Hans Andersen. | 39 |
| When an old man cannot drink prepare his grave. Spanish. | 40 |
| When an old man dances he raises a great dust. German. | 41 |
| When an old man plays tenpins the balls make a great clatter. German. | 42 |
| When men grow old they become more foolish and more wise. French. | 43 |
| When old men are not upright they teach their sons and grandsons to be rogues. Chinese. | 44 |
| Who honors not age is unworthy of it. | 45 |
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