The young see what they wish to see. The old see what they do not wish. — Bette Lord Copy Share Image
What you desire when young, you have in abundance when old. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
What one has wished for in youth, in old age one has in abundance. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“How terrible, Jack thought, to be old and know that your life has been wasted.” — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
Was it the forgetfulness of old age or personal incapacity that made the man able to say please but not thank you? — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“The coward believes he will live forever If he holds back in the battle, But in old age he shall have no… — Hávamál - The of the high one Copy Share Image
“If Nature’s role is to bring cheer to a person’s life, it certainly doesn’t do the job in the room of a… — Hendrik Groen Copy Share Image
Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife, This simple boon I beg of Fate -… — Carolyn Wells Copy Share Image
I want a comfortable old age and to be looked after - I have arthritis - and money is a factor. — Miriam Margolyes Copy Share Image
“A remark of my brother’s apropos of the troubles and pains our mother endured: “Old age is nature’s self-criticism.” — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
I think people would live a bit longer if they didn't know how old they were. Age puts restrictions on things. — Karl Pilkington Copy Share Image
We spend our lives on the run: we get up by the clock, eat and sleep by the clock, get up again,… — Dave Allen Copy Share Image
The poet's body even is not fed like other men's, but he sometimes tastes the genuine nectar and ambrosia of the gods,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Distinctly different as a child, as an adolescent, in his prime and in his old age, man considers himself as one, not… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
“Moving is both liberating and debilitating. Undertaken too late, it is a very stressful process, one that sometimes seems to catapult people… — Mary Catherine Bateson Copy Share Image
Education is the food of youth, the delight of old age, the ornament of prosperity, the refuge and comfort of adversity, and… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
“Listen: I don't have anything against autobiographies, so long as the writer has a penis that's twelve inches long when erect. So… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“It was funny, in her old age, to look back and see for how short a period her nest had NOT been… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
Relish love in your old age! Aged love is like aged wine; it becomes more satisfying, more refreshing, more valuable, more appreciated… — Leo Buscaglia Copy Share Image
“So hard for me to realize," Bernard was saying, "to reconstruct. As though we were living on different planets, in different centuries.… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Today age segregation has passed all sane limits. Not only are fifteen-year-olds isolated from seventy-year-olds but social groups divide those in high… — Suzanne Gordon Copy Share Image
“I was sent forth from the power, and I have come to those who reflect upon me, and I have been found… — George W. Macrae Copy Share Image
“I mean, we don’t have to worry about it until winter, anyway,” she said. “I was just wondering if you felt cured.”… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Jason Oliver C. Smith, a big dumb guy who was tan, died March 30 of lung cancer and old age. He was… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
The other producer of old age is habit: the deathly process of doing the same thing in the same way at the… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
Beautiful is old age—beautiful as the slow-dropping mellow autumn of a rich glorious summer. In the old man, Nature has fulfilled her… — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
“To what nadir of paltriness , pettiness, and squalor a man can sink! How could he change so! But is this really… — Nikolai Gogol Copy Share Image
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