True poets, like great artists, have scarcely any childhood, and no old age. — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
To be young is to live in the hope of escaping youth; to be old, in the despair of having succeeded. — Jose Bergamin Copy Share Image
“At the ripe old age of seventeen, Donna had decided that "happily ever after" didn't exist for freaks like her.” — Karen Mahoney Copy Share Image
Life moves out of a red flare of dreams Into a common light of common hours, Until old age brings the red… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
“He returned to Cambridge feeling, at the ripe old age of twenty, that life was passing him by.” — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
It is important to remember that aging and growing old are not necessarily the same. — Senora Roy Copy Share Image
What makes old age so sad is, not that our joys, but that our hopes then cease. — Jean Paul Copy Share Image
I can't minimize the terror factor. As you get older you get more and more frightened because the terrible indignities of old… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
“On my solemn oath, Edmund, I'd gladly face not having an acre of land to call my own, nor a penny in… — Eugene O'Neill Copy Share Image
Even the rich aren't often happy. Their wealth is at best only a temporary distraction. It doesn't make them immune to emotional… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There is no happiness where there is no wisdom; No wisdom but in submission to the gods. Big words are always punished,… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
“There is the globe, The foundation of my bodily existence. It wears me out with work and duties, It gives me rest… — Chuang Tzu Copy Share Image
“Even to your old age and grey hairs I am he, I am he who will sustain you. I have loved you… — Tarryn Fisher Copy Share Image
Seek that your last days may be your best days, and so you may die in a good old age, which may… — Ralph Venning Copy Share Image
A man is thirty years old before he has any settled thoughts of his fortune; it is not completed before fifty. He… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
The three touchstones that woke Buddha up - sickness, old age, and death - are a pretty good place to start when… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
“It is notorious that the insatiable factory wears out its workers with great rapidity. As it scraps machinery so it scraps human… — Chris Farrell Copy Share Image
“Because our world is not the same as Othello’s world. You can’t make flivvers without steel-and you can’t make tragedies without social… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“But you've not explained why the quality of good is not inherent, but not that of evil. I say man has these… — Tendai Huchu Copy Share Image
“The Newton Twins were the first to try to force the machine to be wrong. Both their tickets said Old Age, so… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“No matter how good the walls and the materials are; if the foundations are not strong, the building will not stand. By… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Though beauty is, with the most apt similitude, I had almost said with the most literal truth, called a flower that fades… — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke Copy Share Image
I have begun in old age to understand just how oddly we are all put together. We are so proud of our… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“Henri said our names were fitting because we were destined to be together in our old age, like our great-great-aunts. Two gray… — Jessica Taylor Copy Share Image
Whether we live to a vigorous old age lies not so much in our stars or in our genes but in ourselves. — George Vaillant Copy Share Image
Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age. — Lactantius Copy Share Image
One of the things you realize about gettin older is that not everybody is goin to get older with you. — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
I think old age is in each one's head; so if you're happy doing what you love, you're going to be young. — Anderson Silva Copy Share Image
“Our hands meet for an instant and she withdraws quickly, frightened she might catch something. Old age perhaps.” — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
Old married people look so much alike that they have the same number of hairs in their ears. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I am much beholden to old age, which has increased my eagerness for conversation in proportion as it has lessened my appetites… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“Parent may hinder their children's marriage; but children cannot interfere with the insane acts of their parents in their second childhood.” — Honoré de Balzac Copy Share Image
The thing is to become a master and in your old age to acquire the courage to do what children did when… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“One should never make one's debut with a scandal. One should reserve that to give an interest to one's old age.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
One of the duties of old-age, is the management of time. The less that remains to us, the more valuable we ought… — Anne-Therese de Marguenat de Courcelles Copy Share Image
Rolexes, chauffeurs, and low fades. I keep thinking, how young can you die from old age? — Drake Copy Share Image
“The land of easy mathematics where he who works adds up and he who retires subtracts.” — Núria Añó Copy Share Image
People don't die of old age, they die of diseases that accompany old age, and they are preventable. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
When I was young my teachers were the old. I gave up fire for form till I was cold. — Robert Frost Copy Share Image