Those who are born of parents broken with old age, or of such as are not yet ripe or are too young,… — Thomas Willis Copy Share Image
Years ago, I thought old age would be dreadful, because I should not be able to do things I would want to… — Nancy Astor Copy Share Image
For sixty years, the Ring lay quiet in Bilbo's keeping, prolonging his life, delaying old age. But no longer, Frodo. Evil is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Caution and conservatism are expected of old age; but when the young men of a nation are possessed of such a spirit,… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
“Then I remember that God is really, really old. So maybe God has God arthritis. And maybe that's why the world sucks.… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
Beauty is an intangible thing; can not be fixed on the surface, and the wear and tear of old age on the… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
“The man who finds that in the course of his life he has done a lot of wrong often wakes up at… — Plato Copy Share Image
Do you know whats really sad? The fact that you see this old couple who have been together for over 50 years… — Autumn Kohler Copy Share Image
“That day, instead, I saw clearly the mothers of the old neighbourhood. They were nervous, they were acquiescent. They were silent, with… — Elena Ferrante Copy Share Image
“If people are honest with themselves when they choose a tattoo, the art will represent them better than anything that will ever… — Troy Holloway Copy Share Image
“La Lowell wanted nothing; she lived for the day, unfettered, free, fearless; she wasn't afraid of poverty, loneliness, or infirmity. She accepted… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“One of the seats of emotion and memory in the brain is the amygdala, he explained. When something threatens your life, this… — Burkhard Bilger Copy Share Image
“If you were offered the chance to live your own life again, would you seize the opportunity? The only real philosophical answer… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Mary had become anxious in her old age, and she hated being away from the house for long. She'd hold the girls'… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
“Maybe you'll come to know that every man in every generation is refired. Does a craftsman, even in his old age, lose… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
the myth of childhood happiness flourishes so wildly not because it satisfies the needs of children but because it satisfies the needs… — Shulamith Firestone Copy Share Image
The body, after all, older and wiser than soul, being first created, and, like a good horse, if given its way would… — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share Image
Old age is the night of life, as night is the old age of the day. Still, night is full of magnificence;… — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
In old persons, when thus fully expressed, we often observe a fair, plump, perennial waxen complexion, which indicates that all the ferment… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Middle age is when you go to bed at night and hope you feel better in the morning. Old age is when… — Groucho Marx Copy Share Image
[Orthodox Patriarch] Kirill, my brother. We kissed each other, embraced, and then a conversation for two hours. Old age doesn't come on… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“Age in just a number. It carries no weight. The real weight is in impacts. The truth is that you can do… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
People are reluctant to talk about old age and death because they are afraid of emotion, and they willingly avoid the things… — Paul Tournier Copy Share Image
Old age diminishes our strength; it takes away our pleasures one after the other; it withers the soul as well as the… — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
It's a whole different attitude toward public service than it once was. I tell you, we can all sit around in our… — Paul Volcker Copy Share Image
Old age is a lease nature only signs as a particular favor, and it may be, to one, only in the space… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“something that happens almost always with women who maintain their clarity of spirit, freshness of impressions, and honest, pure intensity of heart… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
Eighty's a landmark and people treat you differently than they do when you're seventy-nine. At seventy-nine, if you drop something it just… — Helen Van Slyke Copy Share Image
Let us be men with men, and always children before God; for in His eyes we are but children. Old age itself,… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
“If the two women feared that the coming of this date [their retirement] might give some clue to their ages, it was… — Barbara Pym Copy Share Image
Humanity thinks it needs to constantly evolve so that maybe someday, old age and sickness will be eradicated from existence. However, our… — Melchor Lim Copy Share Image
I don't mind pointing out some of the failings of old age, because we are all headed in that direction, unless of… — Amy Sedaris Copy Share Image
I think if a physician wrote on a death certificate that old age was the cause of death, he'd be thrown out… — George Wald Copy Share Image
Old age tells us that we ourselves have failed often, have never really done anything completely right, have never truly been perfect… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
Either a peaceful old age awaits me, or death flies round me with black wings. [Lat., Seu me tranquilla senectus Exspectat, seu… — Horace Copy Share Image
If a man would register all his opinions upon love, politics, religion, learning etc., beginning from his youth, and so go to… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
There has been enough suffering in our country, there has been enough of children whose dreams die before they have a chance… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People do not realize that Alzheimer's is not old age. It is a progressive and fatal disease, and staggering amounts of people… — Melina Kanakaredes Copy Share Image
“Seven Ages: first puking and mewling Then very pissed-off with your schooling Then fucks, and then fights Next judging chaps' rights Then… — Robert Conquest Copy Share Image
“Maybe the conference was an inversion layer of another kind, bringing me face-to-face with old friends and old places. With cancer and… — Connie Willis Copy Share Image