Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
All this [Paul's writing] is nothing better than the jargon of a conjurer who picks up phrases he does not understand to… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
We think in youth that our bodies are identical to ourselves and have the same interests, but discover later in life that… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
When you get to be my age, all your friends have either died or moved to Florida. — Helen Van Slyke Copy Share Image
“I think in my old age I've come to realize just how precious everything is and I try to value the many… — Phil Hartman Copy Share Image
“We chose younger and younger politicians to lead us because they looked good on television and were sharp. But really we should… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
Old age deprives the intelligent man only of qualities useless to wisdom. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
I want to grow old without facelifts... I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I've made. Sometimes… — Marilyn Monroe Copy Share Image
“Know why he could do it? Because no one ever told him he couldn’t. No one ever told him he oughta be… — Christopher McDougall Copy Share Image
At times is it seems that I am living my life backward, and that at the approach of old age my real… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
“He returned to Cambridge feeling, at the ripe old age of twenty, that life was passing him by.” — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“In contemporary societies, by contrast, old age and infirmity have gone from being a shared, multigenerational responsibility to a more or less… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
“As I got older, I thought about aging more, as we all do. I came to think of old age as a… — Lai Wen Copy Share Image
“Because our world is not the same as Othello’s world. You can’t make flivvers without steel-and you can’t make tragedies without social… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
Then Abraham gave up the ghost, and died in a good old age, an old man, and full of years; and was… — Bible Copy Share Image
“Her face was plastered with layers of powder and looked like a face of stone. And with her noble profile, she seemed,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Fear is easily experienced, but fun is hard to come by in old age, so I already felt a sense of gratitude… — Graham Greene 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
Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity. — Geoffrey Chaucer Copy Share Image
So much working, reading, thinking, living to do. A lifetime is not long enough. Nor youth to old age long enough. Immortality… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image