Old age Quotes · Page 40

[Orthodox Patriarch] Kirill, my brother. We kissed each other, embraced, and then a conversation for two hours. Old age doesn't come on…

— Pope Francis

Very odd, old age. Always knew it would happen, if I was lucky. I just didn't expect it so soon.

— Josephine Hart

I have achieved my seventy years in the usual way, by sticking strictly to a scheme of life which would kill anybody…

— Mark Twain

“A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE .... enough money within her control to move out and rent a place of her own even if…

— Pamela Redmond Satran

old age' is always ten years more than we are.

— Joan Rivers

There comes with old age a time when the heart is no longer fusible or malleable, and must retain the form in…

— Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long. [Lat., Mature fieri senem,…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Then there's that 'You're only as old as you feel' business, which is true to a point, but you can't be Shirley…

— Joan Crawford

In terms of my peer group, nobody's parents were dying of old age. There was no dialogue to have among friends. I…

— Tamara Jenkins

Everything had kept getting less, they'd had to leave behind more and more baggage, or else it was taken from them, as…

— Jenny Erpenbeck

The price of indulging yourself in your youth in the things you cannot afford is poverty and dependence in your old age.

— Dorothy Dix

Virginity is now a mere preamble or waiting room to be got out of as soon as possible; it is without significance.…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

For the unlearned, old age is winter; for the learned it is the season of the harvest.

— The Talmud

The world's oldest woman passed away at 116. They keep dying. I think that title may be cursed.

— David Letterman

“Grandchildren are their grandparents' toys.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I do not believe in old age. I do not believe in getting tired.

— Maxine Hong Kingston

Somewhere in the brain of every prima donna there is a deep craving for security and comfort, linked with a fear of…

— Andre Mertens

But it is possible, it is possible: the old grief, by a great mystery of human life, gradually passes into quiet, tender…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Age overtakes us all; Our temples first; then on o'er cheek and chin, Slowly and surely, creep the frosts of Time. Up…

— Theocritus

The best Armour of Old Age is a well spent life preceding it; a Life employed in the Pursuit of useful Knowledge,…

— Anonymous

“You'd think old age was a criminal offense, not a destination we're all heading to.”

— David Mitchell

“Due to some dim but irresistible notion of the way things are, it is simply not possible, out of order, not apprpriate…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

forgetting things is what gives old age a bad name, that and old age.

— Peg Bracken

As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining…

— Seneca the Younger

“Observing any human being from infancy, seeing someone come into existence, like a new flower in bud, each petal first tightly furled…

— Jamaica Kincaid