For some one who has passed the age of sixty, I definitely agree with the adage old age is the verdict of life.
Anyway, the quote, “Old age is the verdict of life” by Amelia Barr with citation is listed below.
RELATED: Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr was a British novelist of historical romances set in England and the United States.
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Back in my younger days, I could understand the meaning of this maxim, but it won’t resonate with me.
Most of the advice would sound cliched or meaningless, hence they fall on deaf ears.
What British statesman Benjamin Disraeli said back then is still rings true today:
Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.
(Coningsby; Or The New Generation By B. Disraeli, Paris: A. And W. Galignani And C., 1844, Book III, Ch. I, P. 88) source
There is nothing you can do with your age, but you can do a lot things with your life.
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As you know aging is not just having wrinkles and grey hair or even loss of hair.
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Unless and until you could grow old, then the adage old age is the verdict of life would make sense to you.
Old age is the verdict of life
Now, let’s slow down take your time and ponder over these collection of quotes on aging:
“If youth knew; if age could” – French Proverb
“What makes old age so sad is, not that our joys, but that our hopes, cease.” – Jean-Paul Richter
“Das Alter ist nicht trübe, weil darin unsere Freuden, sondern weil unsere Hoffnungen aufhören.” (German)
“Ce qui rend la vieillesse morose, ce n’est pas la perte de ses joies, mais celle de ses espérances.” (French)
“Years steal fire from the mind as vigor from the limb.” – Lord Byron
“Rashness, indeed, belongs to youth; prudence, to age.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Temeritas est videlicet florentis aetatis, prudentia senescentis.” (Latin)
“For those who have in themselves no resources for a good and happy life every period of life is burdensome.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Quibus enim nihil est in ipsis opis ad bene beateque vivendum, eis omnis aetas gravis est.” (Latin)
“For death comes not to the living soul, nor age to the loving heart!” – Phoebe Cary
“…the wiser mind mourns less for what age takes away than what it leaves behind.” – William Wordsworth
“Our apprehension about aging is actually our fear of death.” – Quotationize
Our dread of growing older is a dread of our demise
“Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.” – Unknown
Someone asked Bernard Shaw what, in his opinion, is the most beautiful thing in this world.
“Youth,” he replied, “is the most beautiful thing in this world—and what a pity that it has to be wasted on children!”
“To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.” – Ben Johnson
“There are three classes into which all the women past seventy that ever I knew were to be divided: 1. That dear old soul; 2. That old woman; 3. That old witch.” – Samuel-Taylor Coleridge
“The surest sign of age is loneliness. While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot be old, whatever his years may number.” – Amos Bronson Alcott
“…the fruit of old age, […] is the memory of abundant blessings previously acquired.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero
“fructus autem senectutis est,[…], ante partorum bonorum memoria et copia.” (Latin)
Another translation is:
“…The harvest of old age, […] is the recollection and abundance of blessings previously secured.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero
“If they possess well-regulated minds and easy tempers, old age itself is no intolerable burden…” – Plato
“Old age equalizes – we are unaware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young, we act as if we were the first young people in the world.” – Eric Hoffer
“The evening of life brings with it its lamp.” – Joseph Joubert
“Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.” – Somerset Maugham
“I have lived longer than you. I have thought more, and I have suffered more. And I tell you there is more truth to the fundamental nature of things in the most foolish fairy tales than there is in any of your complaints against life.” – John Boynton Priestley
“Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
“In youth all doors open outward; in old age they all open inward.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Youth wrenches the sceptre from old age, and sets the crown on its own head before it is entitled to it.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“…age, like distance, lends a double charm.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes
“People had much rather be thought to look ill than old: because it is possible to recover from sickness, but there is no recovering from age.” – William Hazlitt
“The great thing about getting older is that you don’t lose all the other ages you’ve been.” – Madeleine L’Engle
“A man’s age represents a fine cargo of experiences and memories.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“I don’t believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.” – Virginia Woolf
“The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young.” – Oscar Wilde
“Old age is the verdict of life.” – Amelia E. Barr
“Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.” – Benjamin Disraeli
“To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.” – Oscar Wilde
“When a man stands on the verge of seventy-two you know perfectly well that he never reached that place without knowing what this life is – heartbreaking bereavement.” – Mark Twain
“The years teach much which the days never know.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“A man in old age is like a sword in a shop window.” – Henry Ward Beecher
“At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
“It’s an epitome of life. The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.” – Mark Twain