Old age deprives the intelligent man only of qualities useless to wisdom. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us. — Beverly Sills Copy Share Image
Is old age really so terrible? Not if you've brushed your teeth faithfully. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave. — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Copy Share Image
The heads of strong old age are beautiful beyond all grace of youth. — Robinson Jeffers Copy Share Image
“Even when you don't see old age coming, you can wave it goodbye” — Benny Bellamacina Copy Share Image
The art of growing old is the art of being regarded by the oncoming generations as a support and not as a… — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
An old mans memories, like his bones, grow sharp with age and show their true shapes. — Joyce Cary Copy Share Image
Despite my being an old gypsy there is a tendency to respectability inherent in old age. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“I do not think either virginity or old age contemptible, and some of the shrewdest minds I have met inhabited the bodies… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Avarice, he assured them, was the one passion that grew stronger and sweeter in old age.” — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
White hair often covers the head, but the heart that holds it is ever young. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Do old people always live in the past? What yesterday was firm and true, may not be so today. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
Middle age ends and senescence begins, the day your descendant's outnumber your friends. — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
Either God is alive, in which case he'll deal with us as he sees fit. Or he is dead, in which case… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
“My dear, when you are as old as I, they won't call you Jane, either. Old age is dreadfully formal. It's always… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Loneliness tortures many if not most of the elderly more intensely and more frequently than it torments many if not most of… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Iggy Pop is a pure Michigan product - gritty, smart, but not afraid of looking stupid or foolish. His father was once… — David Means Copy Share Image
Everything had kept getting less, they'd had to leave behind more and more baggage, or else it was taken from them, as… — Jenny Erpenbeck Copy Share Image
Spiritual practices help us move from identifying with the ego to identifying with the soul. Old age does that for you too.… — Ram Dass 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
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
“When the last autumn of Dickens's life was over, he continued to work through his final winter and into spring. This is… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“Hereditary leadership was unknown. Men became chiefs by their prowess in war; and because he must ever be generous, a chief was… — Frank Bird Linderman Copy Share Image
“First, they have small drops of moisture fall to dampen the dust of desire, and by opening the gateway of nirvana, fanning… — Gene Reeves Copy Share Image
Today, when death and old age are increasingly concealed behind euphemisms and comforting baby talk, and life is threatened with being smothered… — Martin Esslin Copy Share Image
“Zenists call them 'pairs of opposites.' It holds good also in human affairs: advantage is always accompanied by disadvantage; loss by gain;… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“The noise of the town some floors below was greatly muted. In a state of complete mental detachment, he went over the… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
“I know, it looks pure and beautiful to you now, at your great old age of twenty-two. But do you know what… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“The old grief of the great mystery of human life gradually passes into a quiet, tender joy; in place of the boiling… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
Respect old people: they graduated highschool without Google or Wikipedia! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of childhood into maturity. — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
As a youth, I sought out decadence; as an elder, I try to avoid decay. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
