“Death devours not only those who have been cooked by old age; it also feasts on those who are half-cooked and even… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Old age was naturally more honored in times when people could not know much more than what they had seen. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
The exhaustion of old age is something people who are younger don't fully appreciate. — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
Old age - that's when a woman takes vitamins A through G, and still looks like H. — Rita Hayworth Copy Share Image
But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
When the body is still healthy and diseaseless, When old age has not yet attacked it — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Someone criticized an elderly man for wooing young women. He replied that that was the only way to rejuvenation, which was, afterall,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Take care that old age does not wrinkle your spirit even more than your face. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age… — Jean Paul Copy Share Image
Freedom, in childhood, may be the right to be totally self-centered. But freedom in old age is the ability to be… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
The work that most people do in the world tends to deaden them, deadens their mind, uses up their energy and they… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Books are the food of youth, the delight of old age; the ornament of prosperity, the refuge and comfort of adversity; a… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Turn thy thoughts now to the consideration of thy life, thy life as a child, as a youth, thy manhood, thy old… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“Old age is not meant to be survived alone," Man Rapadou said, her voice trailing with her own hidden thoughts. "Death should… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
One thing they don't tell you about growing old - you don't feel old, you just feel like yourself. And it's true.… — Betty White Copy Share Image
“I blushed. You haven't seen a bald man in his sixties blush? Oh, it happens, just as it does to a hairy,… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“Now, I am living out my life in my corner, taunting myself with the spiteful and useless consolation that an intelligent man… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“You should date a girl who reads. Date a girl who reads. Date a girl who spends her money on books instead… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Old age is really a disguise that no one but the old themselves see through. I feel exactly as I always did,… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
To a large extent, the aged in our society are ghettoized. Old people are seen as useless, bypassed by history, old-fashioned, in… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
I see that I've become a really bad correspondent. It's not that I don't think of you. You come into my thoughts… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“Sixty is heaven," she [bohemian Aunt Norma] told Jeanie as they sat having tea. "The world is done with you, you become… — Hilary Boyd Copy Share Image
“We are not our own any more than what we possess is our own. We did not make ourselves, we cannot be… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Observing any human being from infancy, seeing someone come into existence, like a new flower in bud, each petal first tightly furled… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Sickness is a sort of early old age; it teaches us a diffidence in our earthly state. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“Sons, they have their own plans, but a daughter or granddaughter, they will love you forever and take care of you in… — Craig Johnson Copy Share Image
We all should start to live before we get too old. Fear is stupid,so are regrets. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long. — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
“Old age is an insult. Old age is a slap in the face. It sabotages a fine mind (...).” — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
I begin to find an idle and fond bondage in the oppression of aged tyranny, who sways, not as it hath power,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
My life, I realize suddenly, is July. Childhood is June, and old age is August, but here it is, July, and my… — Rick Bass Copy Share Image
That's the purpose of old age... To give us a breathing space before we die, in which to see why we did… — Colleen McCullough Copy Share Image
In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
When I'm in front of an audience, all that love and vitality sweeps over me and I forget my age. — George Burns Copy Share Image
We all wish to reach a ripe old age, but none of us are prepared to admit that we are already there. — Francisco de Quevedo Copy Share Image
The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies fast away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and women,… — Juvenal Copy Share Image
For the complete life, the perfect pattern includes old age as well as youth and maturity. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I thought I'd live to a ripe old age, because I always felt there was a lot to do. I had a… — Debbie Harry Copy Share Image
![“Sixty is heaven," she [bohemian Aunt Norma] told Jeanie as they sat having tea. "The world is done with you, you become to all intents and purposes invisible, particularly if you are a woman. I like to think of it as your third life. There's childhood, then adult conformity - work, family…” quote by Hilary Boyd](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/255/hilary-boyd-97858_adult_sixty-is-heaven-she-bohemian-aunt-norma_2584825.jpg)
