What is a great life? It is the dreams of youth realised in old age. — Alfred de Vigny Copy Share Image
An old man drinks tea and reads the newspaper--forgetting age for a moment. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
When men grow virtuous in their old age, they are merely making a sacrifice to God of the Devil's leavings. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Wisdom is the gray hair unto men, and an unspotted life is old age (Solomon 4:8). — Bible Copy Share Image
Who does not wish to be beautiful, and clever, and rich, and to have back, in old age, the time spent trying… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
I can say now is that sneaking up on people is a major delight in my old age, but it always has… — Patricia McConnell Copy Share Image
Those who, like the beasts, have no such Hope, pass their old age shrouded with an inward gloom. — Wilfred Owen Copy Share Image
About the only good thing you can say about old age is, it's better than being dead! — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
“When we are young we squander time as though it were unlimited; When we grow older, then like beggars we wish for… — Nanette L. Avery Copy Share Image
If we are strong, and have faith in life and its richness of surprises, and hold the rudder steadily in our hands.… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
Old people who live too long come to resemble turtles. As though time turned in a curve, and down they go to… — Josephine Winslow Johnson Copy Share Image
I was supposedly living this glamorous life, but I was crippled by the idea of growing old and where do I go… — Beverly Johnson Copy Share Image
“And you and your wise prince will talk long into the night, every night, and live to a ripe old age. And… — T. Kingfisher Copy Share Image
There's to be a film about my life. I can give this as an exclusive now. Meryl Streep was offered the part… — Barry Humphries Copy Share Image
King David and King Solomon Led merry, merry lives, With many, many lady friends And many, many wives; But when old age… — James Ball Naylor Copy Share Image
The answer to old age is to keep one's mind busy and to go on with one's life as if it were… — Leon Edel Copy Share Image
I feel now, in my impending old age, very lucky. I just can't tell you how lucky I feel, that I've managed… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“Since I encountered death, met death on every mountain path,conversed with death in my sleep, wrestled with death in the snow, gambled… — Louis de Bernières Copy Share Image
In my old age, I have come to believe that love is not a noun but a verb. An action. Like water,… — Alyson Richman Copy Share Image
“Death is a beautiful naked man who looks like Apollo, and he is not satisfied with those who wither away in old… — Louis de Berniѐres Copy Share Image
“As I got older, I thought about aging more, as we all do. I came to think of old age as a… — Lai Wen 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
Every one of the geezers who continues to play a leadership role has one quality of overriding importance: neotony. The dictionary definition… — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
“One can distinguish several types of inspiration, which intergrade, as all things do in this fluid and interesting world of ours, while… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“Old age is, it occurs to Busner as he lies stranded on his side staring at the clock radio, a form of… — Will Self Copy Share Image
Drawn to childhood, the old man will seek it in a thousand different ways. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
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