Yet there's something ominous about turning sixty-five. Suddenly old age is not a phenomenon which will occur; it has occurred. — Colleen McCullough Copy Share Image
Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity. — Geoffrey Chaucer Copy Share Image
“So long as our parents are alive, we are children. Then we become childish.” — Ljupka Cvetanova Copy Share Image
Sometimes [the expression] old age has a kind of harrowing beauty. But elderly - ugh! — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
Science has salvaged scrap metal and even found vitamins and valuable oils in refuse, but old people are extravagantly wasted. — Anzia Yezierska Copy Share Image
I tell you old and young are better than tired middle-aged, nothing is so dead dead-tired, dead every way as middle-aged. — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
We retire too early and we die too young, our prime of life should be in the 70's and old age should… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“What’s the point of living until old age if you forget to live on your way there?” — T.S. Joyce Copy Share Image
“Eliminate the Fear of Old Age by reaching a decision to accept it not as a handicap, but as a great blessing… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
A lot of people are frightened by old age - by being around people who are, basically, on their way out -… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
When old age shall this generation waste, Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe Than ours, a friend to man, to… — John Keats Copy Share Image
“Talk to grandparents and every elderly people you come across because later, they will talk and you will listen. Hear them, they… — Bhavik Sarkhedi Copy Share Image
Old age is a disease from which there is no recovery but the old nun's recent attack had certainly been brought on… — Murasaki Shikibu Copy Share Image
It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age,… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
“But the lucidity of her old age allowed her to see, and she said so many times, that the cries of children… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“For the last four years of her life, Mother was in a nursing home called Chateins in St. Louis ... [S]ix months… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Do not shorten the morning by getting up late, or waste it in unworthy occupations or in talk; look upon it as… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
For although we know that the years pass, that youth gives way to old age, that fortunes and thrones crumble (even the… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Fanfare for the Makers A cloud of witnesses. To whom? To what? To the small fire that never leaves the sky. To… — Louis MacNeice Copy Share Image
“Forget about your lists and do what you can because that’s all you can do. Phone up the people you miss and… — pleasefindthis Copy Share Image
Herein lies the real value of education. Advanced education may or may not make men and women more efficient; but it enriches… — William Lyon Phelps Copy Share Image
I cannot always sympathize with that demand which we hear so frequently for cheap things. Things may be too cheap. They are… — Benjamin Harrison Copy Share Image
“On differing perspectives: "At birth, we're yanked from a warm, safe place and thrust into a world we have no way of… — Rick Reynolds Copy Share Image
“Life as it proceeds reveals, cooly and dispassionately, what lies behind the mask that each man wears. It would seem that everyone… — Sadegh Hedayat Copy Share Image
“The power of a boy's dream is one of life's little miracles, the way it wraps itself around the heart and remains… — Tom Verducci Copy Share Image
So while our art cannot, as we wish it could, save us from wars, privation, envy, greed, old age, or death, it… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
If you don't do a lot stupid things when you're young. You wont have funny things to talk about when you're old. — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
And she said, Who would have said unto Abraham, that Sarah should have given children suck? for I have born him a… — Bible Copy Share Image
Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years. — Ausonius Copy Share Image
Old age takes from the man of intellect no qualities save those that are useless to wisdom. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
A dissolute and intemperate youth hands down the body to old age in a worn-out state. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Most people do not understand until old age what Plato tells them when they are young. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
The world's oldest woman passed away at 116. They keep dying. I think that title may be cursed. — David Letterman Copy Share Image
it ultimately doesn't matter which disease gnaws away at the body - it looks the same. The flesh surrenders, grows exhausted, and… — Patti Davis Copy Share Image
Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do. — Golda Meir Copy Share Image
You see anyone can see a pretty girl, but its takes special people to see an old lady and to be able… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We can't reach old age by another man's road. My habits protect my life but they would assassinate you. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the passing, we… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
Too chaste an adolescence makes for a dissolute old age. It is doubtless easier to give up something one has known than… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
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