“Good-bye — if you hear of my being stood up against a Mexican stone wall and shot to rags please know that… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
It is a characteristic of old age to find the progress of time accelerated. The less one accomplishes in a given time,… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
Those men who, in war, seek to preserve their lives at any rate commonly die with shame and ignominy, while those who… — Xenophon Copy Share Image
I don't worry about it because we are all growing old. If I were the only one I would worry. But we're… — Ingrid Bergman Copy Share Image
Four specters haunt the Poor - Old Age, Accident, Sickness and Unemployment. We are going to exorcise them. We are going to… — David Lloyd George Copy Share Image
'What do you fear my lady?' 'A cage. To stay behind bars until use and old age accept them and all chance… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Demographics show that we are entering a battle between young and old. I call it the 'Age War.' The young want to… — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
the country of the aged is a land few people think very hard and seriously about before the time of life when… — Maggie Scarf Copy Share Image
“& they kind of probe about your future & if you have a will or why you bother to accumulate all that… — Irena Klepfisz Copy Share Image
The immense accretion of flesh which had descended on her in middle life like a flood of lava on a doomed city… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“Have you met my new dancer?" The girl approached and he was able to dink in the sigh of her with a… — Kate Roth Copy Share Image
“She knew from listening to her grandmother that old age was made up of such remembrances of youth. But she didn’t want… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
“Looking at the stars always makes me dream, as simply as I dream over the black dots representing towns and villages on… — Vincent van Gogh Copy Share Image
“Are not all lifelong friendships born at the moment when at last you meet another human being who has some inkling (but… — C.S. Lewis 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
“Nothing in the past has shaken the foundation of our faith. Nothing in the present can move it. Nothing in the future… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
A sensual and intemperate youth hands over a worn-out body to old age. [Lat., Libidinosa etenim et intemperans adolescentiam effoetum corpus tradit… — Marcus Tullius Cicero 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
To grow old is to grow common. Old age equalizes -- we are aware that what is happening to us has happened… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“...Nyla was right in predicting that, for me, life would go on into old age and my promise has been kept too,… — Edward Beauclerk Maurice Copy Share Image
I have always paid income tax. I object only when it reaches a stage when I am threatened with having nothing left… — Noel Coward Copy Share Image
The magical story is not a microscope but a mirror, not a drop of water but a well. It is not simply… — Jane Yolen 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
Sibelius justified the austerity of his old age by saying that while other composers were engaged in manufacturing cocktails, he offered the… — Neville Cardus 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
I think you are out of your mind if you keep taking jobs that you don't like because you think it will… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Nothing gives a sadder sense of decay than this loss or suspension of the power to deal with unaccustomed things, and to… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“The moon and sun are travelers of a hundred generations. The years, coming and going, are wanderers too. Spending a lifetime adrift… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
The moon and sun are travelers through eternity. Even the years wander on. Whether drifting through life on a boat or climbing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The fact is, we are much more afraid of life than our ancestors, and cannot find it inourhearts either tomarry or not… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“We chose younger and younger politicians to lead us because they looked good on television and were sharp. But really we should… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
One of the great reasons, I am sure, why [David O.] McKay has lived to such a good, ripe, and vigorous old… — Ernest L. Wilkinson Copy Share Image
Body The stages your body goes through - birth, growth, youth, aging, old age, and death. Your thoughts do influence your body.… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
As the imagination is set to look into the invisible and immaterial, it seems to attract something of their vitality; and though… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
“The “Florida effect” involves two stages of priming. First, the set of words primes thoughts of old age, though the word old… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image