Today there is no symbolic compensation for old age, no recognition of a specific value: wisdom, perceptiveness, experience, vision. — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
So here I sit in the early candle-light of old age-I and my book-casting backward glances over out travel'd road. — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
I don't know how you feel about old age... but in my case I didn't even see it coming. It hit me… — Phyllis Diller Copy Share Image
“and he took up his abode with one of his sons, enjoying, perhaps, as serene and happy an old age as ever… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A man's diary is a record in youth of his sentiments, in middle age of his actions, in old age of his… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
Wisdom is the gray hair unto men, and an unspotted life is old age (Solomon 4:8). — Bible Copy Share Image
“9. Abraham’s death (25:1 – 11) After Sarah’s death, Abraham took another wife, Keturah. Abraham was a rejuvenated old man and continued… — John H. Sailhamer Copy Share Image
In their youth, mortals behave more like nymphs. Adulthood seems impossibly distant, let alone the enfeeblement of old age. But ponderously, inevitably,… — Brandon Mull Copy Share Image
Alas, Postumus, the fleeting years slip by, nor will piety give any stay to wrinkles and pressing old age and untamable death. — Horace Copy Share Image
“But the disastrous walk reminded me that I had reached an age where only careful planning and a steady eye would keep… — Lynn Darling Copy Share Image
“So, I think that when we become civilized, great corporations will make provision for men who have given their lives to their… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Old age is not a good thing. It can be really hard, and those of us who have it a little easier… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
“Astoria always knew that she was not destined for old age. She wanted me to have somebody when she left, because...it is… — J.K. Rowling Copy Share Image
At length weariness succeeds to labor, and the mind lies at ease in the contemplation of her own attainments without any desire… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Is old age really so terrible? Not if you've brushed your teeth faithfully. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies fast away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and women,… — Juvenal Copy Share Image
“Not satisfied with what he's got? Is that it? That's husbands all over. Ungrateful pigs. You do everything for them, you bring… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
the myth of childhood happiness flourishes so wildly not because it satisfies the needs of children but because it satisfies the needs… — Shulamith Firestone Copy Share Image
If you grow up in the suburbs, you hear of people dying of old age, car wrecks, cancer. In the city, it's… — Suge Knight Copy Share Image
“The old age old story of Yin & Yang...Every positive side has a negative side too. Which are you?” — Timothy Pina Copy Share Image
A kind of second childhood falls on so many men. They trade their violence for the promise of a small increase of… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
