One generation abandons the enterprises of another like stranded vessels. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Retire me to my Milan, where Every third thought shall be my grave. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Youth is the time to study wisdom; old age is the time to practice it. — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau Copy Share Image
There is always some chance of recession in any year. But the evidence suggests that expansions don't die of old age. — Janet Yellen Copy Share Image
“We are all the beneficiaries of those who went before us, as well as those who will care for us in old… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
The habits of a young man are, like his coat, removable; the habits of an old man are like the drapery of… — Austin O'Malley Copy Share Image
It is, I assume, quite easy to wither into old age, and hard to grow into it. — May Sarton Copy Share Image
As we grow older we become wiser. When we think back to this day, we are the ones that seek for the… — BuddhaChild Copy Share Image
“He was then sixty-two years old, an age by which most men are in the grave or at least occupying a chair… — Sara Poole Copy Share Image
All-devouring time, envious age, Nought can escape you, and by slow degrees, Worn by your teeth, all things will lingering die. — Ovid Copy Share Image
Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
It's a whole different attitude toward public service than it once was. I tell you, we can all sit around in our… — Paul Volcker Copy Share Image
Eighty's a landmark and people treat you differently than they do when you're seventy-nine. At seventy-nine, if you drop something it just… — Helen Van Slyke Copy Share Image
“something that happens almost always with women who maintain their clarity of spirit, freshness of impressions, and honest, pure intensity of heart… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
[Orthodox Patriarch] Kirill, my brother. We kissed each other, embraced, and then a conversation for two hours. Old age doesn't come on… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
People are reluctant to talk about old age and death because they are afraid of emotion, and they willingly avoid the things… — Paul Tournier Copy Share Image
“Age in just a number. It carries no weight. The real weight is in impacts. The truth is that you can do… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Old age diminishes our strength; it takes away our pleasures one after the other; it withers the soul as well as the… — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
Short is the life of those who possess great accomplishments, and seldom do they reach a good old age. Whatever thou lovest,… — Martial Copy Share Image
“Just as the migratory and nest-building instincts of birds were never learnt or acquired individually, man brings with him at birth the… — Murray Stein Copy Share Image
“I think God has planned the strength and beauty of youth to be physical. But the strength and beauty of old age… — J. Robertson McQuilkin Copy Share Image
“A little later Anastasia was sitting before her bedroom fire writing. It has a magic of its own—the bedroom fire. Not such… — John Meade Falkner Copy Share Image
“Rory: Amy. I'm gonna need a little help here. Amy: Just stop it! Rory: Just think it through, this will work. This… — Steven Moffat Copy Share Image
“Life is not about fairness or unfairness. It is often unjust, claiming the good and the innocent as its victims. Life is… — Michael Mayne Copy Share Image
The Author of nature has not given laws to the universe, which, like the institutions of men, carry in themselves the elements… — John Playfair Copy Share Image
“When we try to understand something, more often than not, we kill it, and now I can feel the dangers of this… — Martin Page Copy Share Image
“When a man gets to middle age shouldn’t he look for a peaceful and stable existence, find a not-too-demanding sort of a… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
“When you get rid of all the older people, you get rid of all the wisdom.” — Terraine Francois Copy Share Image
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