We retire too early and we die too young, our prime of life should be in the 70's and old age should… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I tell you old and young are better than tired middle-aged, nothing is so dead dead-tired, dead every way as middle-aged. — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
Science has salvaged scrap metal and even found vitamins and valuable oils in refuse, but old people are extravagantly wasted. — Anzia Yezierska Copy Share Image
The easiest thing for our friends to discover in us, and the hardest thing for us to discover in ourselves, is that… — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
I've been very lucky and I have a happy old age with good family and friends still around. — Maeve Binchy Copy Share Image
Autumn is really the best of the seasons; and I'm not sure that old age isn't the best part of life. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Old age is the time when birthday candles cost more than the birthday cake itself, and half of your urine is wasted… — Faina Ranevskaya Copy Share Image
Old age: The estuary that enlarges and spreads itself grandly as it pours into the Great Sea. — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
The magical story is not a microscope but a mirror, not a drop of water but a well. It is not simply… — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
I have always paid income tax. I object only when it reaches a stage when I am threatened with having nothing left… — Noel Coward Copy Share Image
“...Nyla was right in predicting that, for me, life would go on into old age and my promise has been kept too,… — Edward Beauclerk Maurice Copy Share Image
To grow old is to grow common. Old age equalizes -- we are aware that what is happening to us has happened… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The three touchstones that woke Buddha up - sickness, old age, and death - are a pretty good place to start when… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
A man is thirty years old before he has any settled thoughts of his fortune; it is not completed before fifty. He… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Seek that your last days may be your best days, and so you may die in a good old age, which may… — Ralph Venning Copy Share Image
“Even to your old age and grey hairs I am he, I am he who will sustain you. I have loved you… — Tarryn Fisher Copy Share Image
People who use their erudition to write for a learned minority... don't seem to me favored by fortune but rather to be… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
Herein lies the real value of education. Advanced education may or may not make men and women more efficient; but it enriches… — William Lyon Phelps Copy Share Image
The truth about God is that He exists. He always existed. God existed before He created things. He is still creating things.… — Babloo Copy Share Image
I should never conclude were I to speak to you of all the misfortunes which have their origin in the faulty carriage… — Jean-Georges Noverre Copy Share Image
“To my surprise, I find the most relevant commentary on a marriage that continues into the sunset years comes from the radical… — Daniel Klein Copy Share Image
I am utterly devoted to the present moment. Don't move into the past because that is memory; there is no relevant existence… — OSHO Copy Share Image
“What was needed, was not merely a resolute man, but a man who was also free from the net of legal controls.… — Livy Copy Share Image
“Architecture without pain, art looked at in undiluted pleasure, enjoyment without anxiety, compunction, heartache: there is no beggar woman in the church… — Sybille Bedford Copy Share Image
I only seek in my old age to perfect that which I had not before thoroughly learned in my youth, because my… — Saint Patrick Copy Share Image
“Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
So you see, old age is really not so bad. May you come to know the condition! — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
It is indeed the boundary of life, beyond which we are not to pass; which the law of nature has pitched for… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Old age may have its limitations and challenges, but in spite of them, our latter years can be some of the most… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“...her own experience was beginning to tell her that an alert old age can be more keen than the cards.” — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“What's remarkable about old age is not that we wear out but that we last so long in the grip of gravity.” — Scott Russell Sanders Copy Share Image
When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
The price of indulging yourself in your youth in the things you cannot afford is poverty and dependence in your old age. — Dorothy Dix Copy Share Image
Too chaste an adolescence makes for a dissolute old age. It is doubtless easier to give up something one has known than… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
Discouragement is of all ages: In youth it is a presentiment, in old age a remembrance. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, At my age, I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have begun in old age to understand...that we seldom if ever realize how generous we are to ourselves, and just how… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image