“But if you judge safety to be the paramount consideration in life you should never, under any circumstances, go on long hikes… — Colin Fletcher Copy Share Image
“Suppose..." And for the first time he linked his hand with hers. "He runs and wins and lives to a ripe old… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
The immense accretion of flesh which had descended on her in middle life like a flood of lava on a doomed city… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
When you're my age, you have the feeling sometimes that you're seeing the show come round again. — John le Carre Copy Share Image
“Here's what I think: when you're born, you're assigned a brain like you're assigned a desk, a nice desk, with plenty of… — Elizabeth McCracken Copy Share Image
“He lived in the world, as the last of the Grisly Bears lived in settled Missouri.And as Spring and Summer had departed,… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
The second childhood of a saint is the early infancy of a happy immortality, as we believe. — William Mountford Copy Share Image
Take care that old age does not wrinkle your spirit even more than your face. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“It’s a big complex muscle, it beats and it beats, thirty million times a year. If it lasts twenty-seven hundred million beats,… — Lee Child Copy Share Image
To make good use of life, one should have in youth the experience of advanced years, and in old age the vigor… — Stanisław I Leszczyński Copy Share Image
“I thought it such a shame that our culture had not devised a way to defang old age. A sophisticated civilization wouldn't… — Timothy Schaffert Copy Share Image
“I have never yet gotten entirely over the feeling that a Yankee, on account of his peculiar teachings and bringing-up, is far… — George Benjamin West Copy Share Image
“hegemony of the modern synagogue. These are the events that surround birth, coming of age, marriage (including divorce), and death. Many synagogues… — Kerry M. Olitzky Copy Share Image
A youth without fire is followed by an old age without experience. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The power of love itself weakens and gradually becomes lost with age, like all the other energies of man. — Anatole France Copy Share Image
“I gained great pleasure from my body back then. I gave great pleasure with it, too, if you know what I mean.”… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Some one has said of a fine and honorable old age, that it was the childhood of immortality. — John Wolcot Copy Share Image
The mere man of pleasure is miserable in old age, and the mere drudge in business is but little better, whereas, natural… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
In Indiana we had a queen we named Alice which lived to the ripe old age of eight years and two months… — Jay Smith Copy Share Image
“One of the few things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“I am forty years old now, and you know forty years is a whole lifetime; you know it is extreme old age.… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
