Avarice is the vice of declining years.

To me avarice seems not so much a vice as a deplorable piece of madness.

— Thomas Browne

I thought to spend my declining years writing poetry and teaching - but that won't pay the Bergdorf's bill. I think I'll move to…

— Erica Jong

Theres nothing wrong with making the best of ones declining years, but what does annoy me is the fatalism. Now that were seriously in…

— Aubrey de Grey

There's nothing wrong with making the best of one's declining years, but what does annoy me is the fatalism. Now that we're seriously in…

— Aubrey de Grey

It is important to remember that these are your Declining Years, in which you can jolly well decline to do what you don't feel…

— Peg Bracken

“Real wages have been declining for twenty years. People are working harder, they have to work longer hours, they have less security things are…

— Noam Chomsky

The greatest tragedy of old age is the tendency for the old to feel unneeded, unwanted, and of no use to anyone; the secret…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

“Gladstone .. spent his declining years trying to guess the answer to the Irish Question; unfortunately, whenever he was getting warm, the Irish secretly…

— W.C. Sellar

He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember…

— Joseph Addison

Our youth and manhood are due to our country, but our declining years are due to ourselves.

— Pliny the Elder

So for a good old-gentlemanly vice, I think I must take up with avarice.

— Lord Byron

The American dream itself is declining.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

From the 1970s, there has been a significant change in the US economy, as planners, private and state, shifted it toward financialization and the…

— Noam Chomsky

Newspaper readership is declining like crazy. In fact, there's a good chance that nobody is reading my column.

— Dave Barry

A declining institution often experiences survival of the unfittest.

— John McCarthy