I suppose real old age begins when one looks backward rather than forward — May Sarton Copy Share Image
When he is forsaken, Withered and shaken, What can an old man do but die? — Thomas Hood Copy Share Image
The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long. — A. J. P. Taylor Copy Share Image
Old age is like an opium dream. Nothing seems real except the unreal. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
“In later life most good things happen very slowly; only bad things tend to happen fast.” — Mark Edmundson Copy Share Image
“I’m a nosy old woman, it’s a perk of getting old. You can be annoying and people just call you eccentric.” — Lauren Dane Copy Share Image
We ought not to heap reproaches on old age, seeing that we all hope to reach it. — Wilfred Bion Copy Share Image
THE MOMENT WHEN YOU AT CHURCH AND AN ELDERLY PERSON IS LEADING A SONG AND ADDS IN ALL THOSE EXTRA AD-LIBS!! MMMHMM..oooyyyeeaa — Joekidia Sims Copy Share Image
Old age is not a time of life. It is a condition of the body. It is not time that ages the… — Herbert M. Shelton Copy Share Image
To be old is to be part of a huge and ordinary multitude... the reason why old age was venerated in the… — Ronald Blythe Copy Share Image
“I'll live to be one year younger, because I can't stand the idea of a world without you in it, and die… — Lance Olsen Copy Share Image
The second childhood of a saint is the early infancy of a happy immortality, as we believe. — William Mountford Copy Share Image
“For most of her life she just expected things would work out, that people would be kind. Now she recognized her good… — Stewart O'Nan Copy Share Image
It's an epitome of life. The first half of it consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If I had been helping the Almighty when he created man, I would have had him begin at the other end, and… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Eldora smiled up at Paulo cunningly, her dark eyes twinkling. “You are old, Father.” “Not as old as I shall be, before… — Mary-Jean Harris Copy Share Image
The old age of women is bearable only on condition that they do not take up any room, do not make any… — Suzanne Curchod Copy Share Image
At times is it seems that I am living my life backward, and that at the approach of old age my real… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
“If you see an old man talking to himself, he might not be a fool or crazy. He might be sharing a… — Steven Merle Scott Copy Share Image
A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
“Hell, you ought to go see a doctor, Dad," I told him. "You probably just need some kind of pep-up medicine. Why… — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
“I think in my old age I've come to realize just how precious everything is and I try to value the many… — Phil Hartman Copy Share Image
A man's interest in the world is only the overflow from his interest in himself. When you are a child your vessel… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“I feel to that the gap between my new life in New York and the situation at home in Africa is stretching… — Peter Godwin Copy Share Image
“Parents raise children then grow old, and their children forget the things their old parents did for them, because their brains don’t… — Craig Stone Copy Share Image
“she bore so many of the signs and disfigurings of extreme old age that she was losing her resemblance to other human… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
“...The Presidential election has given me less anxiety than I myself could have imagined. The next administration will be a troublesome one,… — John Adams Copy Share Image
The whole of life is a journey toward youthful old age, toward self-contemplation, love, gaiety, and, in a fundamental sense, the most… — Ashley Montagu Copy Share Image
If you survive long enough, you're revered-rather like an old building. — Katharine Hepburn Copy Share Image
“You don’t get old from age, you get old from inactivity.” Jack LaLanne” — D.P. Ordway Copy Share Image
“The best armour of old age is a well spent life perfecting it.” — Charles T. Munger Copy Share Image
