Old men grasp more at life than babies, and leave it with a much worse grace than young people. It is because… — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau Copy Share Image
They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be fat and flourishing; To shew that the LORD is upright:… — Bible Copy Share Image
'Homer and Langley' is the work of E. L. Doctorow's old age. There are fewer Homeric references than you might have expected,… — Justin Cartwright Copy Share Image
Expansions do not die of old age. The probability of recession in the following year is the same for a three-year-old expansion… — Edgar Fiedler Copy Share Image
“Only the mediocre want to die of old age. Suffer, then, drink pleasure to its last dregs, cry or laugh, scream in… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
The happiest end of life is this: when the mind and the other senses being unimpaired, the same nature which put it… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“...if we somehow find the courage to go directly into the discomfort - even the discomfort of illness, pain, old age, and… — Roland Merullo Copy Share Image
“I hope for a light grief in old age. I was born in Rome and it has returned to me. My autumn… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One of the things you learn in football is that you're only as good as your last outing. I don't like to… — Chuck Noll Copy Share Image
Never say you are too old. You do not say it now, perhaps; but by and by, when the hair grows gray… — Lyman Abbott Copy Share Image
I am struck by the fact that the more slowly trees grow at first, the sounder they are at the core, and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“I went up to his gravestone and repeated what the others had done: I placed a pebble on his tomb and silently… — Emilie Schindler Copy Share Image
Aging happy and well, instead of sad and sick, is at least under some personal control. We have considerable control over our… — George Vaillant Copy Share Image
He had never looked forward to the wisdom and other vaunted benefits of old age. Would he be able to die young—and… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
“BLACK AND WHITE Oh Princess of the Sun. Daughter of nature. Love of the trees. Your eyes are with tears but love… — Victor Vote Copy Share Image
It was Carrot who'd suggested to the Patrician that hardened criminals should be given the chance to 'serve the community' by redecorating… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Love, whose power youth feels, is not suitable for the elderly, just as little as anything that presupposes productivity. It is rare… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“We normally know we're getting older, when the only thing we want for our birthday, is not to be reminded; unless you're… — Chris Geiger Copy Share Image
Old age is not a good thing. It can be really hard, and those of us who have it a little easier… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
Free government cannot long endure if property is largely in a few hands, and large masses of people are unable to earn… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
I think my real fear is that I will get to old age and think I spent too much time concerned about… — June Diane Raphael Copy Share Image
Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age, and to imagine right up to the brink of… — George Sand Copy Share Image
The public, as a whole, finds reassurance in longevity, and, after the necessary interlude of reaction, is disposed to recognize extreme old… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
Good-bye -- if you hear of my being stood up against a stone wall and shot to rags please know that I… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“It is like being two foreigners, trapped in a land we have come to, unable to return to our own, and having… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
“By not dealing with past human rights violations, we are not simply protecting the perpetrators' trivial old age ; we are thereby… — Antjie Krog Copy Share Image
Tis well for old age that it is always accompanied with want of perception, ignorance, and a facility of being deceived. For… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
A kind of second childhood falls on so many men. They trade their violence for the promise of a small increase of… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Immature thought is predominately purposive and utopian. Thought which rejects purpose altogether is the thought of old age. Mature thought combines purpose… — Edward Hallett Carr Copy Share Image
“To flatter a young man, tell him that you thought that he was older than he is. To flatter an old woman,… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Angelina said, "Mom. I don't want you to die. That's the whole thing. You took from me the ability to care for… — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
Then Old Age and Experience, hand in hand, Lead him to death, and make him understand, After a search so painful and… — John Wilmot Copy Share Image
If a man lives to any considerable age, it can not be denied that he laments his imprudences, but I notice he… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Besides, wouldn't it be wonderful if no one ever had to worry about the random cruelty of fatal illness or the woes… — Joan D. Vinge Copy Share Image
“You wait 'til you're my age, and wake every morning to gaze on the vast tract of uncreased linen that is the… — Sarah Waters Copy Share Image
There are many mysteries in old age but the greatest, surely, is this: in those adverts for walk-in bathtubs, why doesn't all… — Alan Coren Copy Share Image
“Some old people keep young at heart in spite of wrinkles and gray hairs, can sympathize with children's little cares and joys,… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“Look at this fog. The damp gets right into your bones. It's doing my chest no good at all. I'll need a… — Christopher Fowler Copy Share Image
“One of the greatest tragedies in my life is my deafness, for it's been over twenty years now since I've been able… — Luis Buñuel Copy Share Image
And what, you ask, does writing teach us? First and foremost, it reminds us that we are alive and that it is… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
