What you desire when young, you have in abundance when old. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The young see what they wish to see. The old see what they do not wish. — Bette Lord Copy Share Image
Old age is catching up with me, or am I catching up with it? — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
“I’m a nosy old woman, it’s a perk of getting old. You can be annoying and people just call you eccentric.” — Lauren Dane Copy Share Image
We ought not to heap reproaches on old age, seeing that we all hope to reach it. — Wilfred Bion Copy Share Image
THE MOMENT WHEN YOU AT CHURCH AND AN ELDERLY PERSON IS LEADING A SONG AND ADDS IN ALL THOSE EXTRA AD-LIBS!! MMMHMM..oooyyyeeaa — Joekidia Sims Copy Share Image
To be old is to be part of a huge and ordinary multitude... the reason why old age was venerated in the… — Ronald Blythe Copy Share Image
Old age is not a time of life. It is a condition of the body. It is not time that ages the… — Herbert M. Shelton Copy Share Image
“I'll live to be one year younger, because I can't stand the idea of a world without you in it, and die… — Lance Olsen Copy Share Image
Someday, IF you are lucky enough to see me in an open coffin; expect to witness my legs twitching. GAS — Gary Shoop Copy Share Image
“In later life most good things happen very slowly; only bad things tend to happen fast.” — Mark Edmundson Copy Share Image
“As ever, you are wiser than I, you old genie. May the Stars grant that you are always here to look after… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
There is a built-in danger in old age which, if we give in to it, makes aging one of the most difficult… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
“Decluttering and downsizing before I am forced to do so also means my kids will have less work and stress when I… — Lisa J. Shultz Copy Share Image
“It is, perhaps, impossible to proportion exactly the price of labor to the profits it produces; and it will also be said,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Greatness is never appreciated in youth, called pride in midlife, dismissed in old age, and reconsidered in death. Because we cannot tolerate… — J. Michael Straczynski Copy Share Image
In childhood, we yearn to be grown-ups. In old age, we yearn to be kids. It just seems that all would be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No sociologist should think himself too good, even in his old age, to make tens of thousands of quite trivial computations in… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
“Time passes. Big men dwindle, small men grow. This man shrinks into old age, those men’s reach grows longer. They can stretch… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“It makes absolutely no difference in the scheme of things whether all but a handful of people live or die. No more… — Jack L. Chalker Copy Share Image
“Thou still unravish’d bride of quietness, Thou foster-child of silence and slow time, Sylvan historian, who canst thus express A flowery tale… — John Keats Copy Share Image
“she bore so many of the signs and disfigurings of extreme old age that she was losing her resemblance to other human… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
“Parents raise children then grow old, and their children forget the things their old parents did for them, because their brains don’t… — Craig Stone Copy Share Image
A man's interest in the world is only the overflow from his interest in himself. When you are a child your vessel… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“I feel to that the gap between my new life in New York and the situation at home in Africa is stretching… — Peter Godwin Copy Share Image
“and he took up his abode with one of his sons, enjoying, perhaps, as serene and happy an old age as ever… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What one has wished for in youth, in old age one has in abundance. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
In youth all doors open outward; in old age all open inward. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“Magic was precarious by nature, and potatoes were safe by comparison.” — Michelle Franklin Copy Share Image
