In particular I may mention Sophocles the poet, who was once asked in my presence, How do you feel about love, Sophocles?… — Plato Copy Share Image
The crucial task of old age is balance: keeping just well enough, just brave enough, just gay and interested and starkly honest… — Florida Scott-Maxwell 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
“He had given Cosette a dress of Binche lace that had come down to him from his own grandmother. “These fashions have… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Four specters haunt the Poor - Old Age, Accident, Sickness and Unemployment. We are going to exorcise them. We are going to… — David Lloyd George Copy Share Image
Women would be disproportionately affected by the privatization of social security. It is one of the most important safety nets for American… — Barbara Mikulski Copy Share Image
In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent. — Socrates Copy Share Image
“I saw you coming.” “You can see into the future?” “Only partial glimpses. Nothing in full detail.” “How is… — Steve the Noob Copy Share Image
Freedom, in childhood, may be the right to be totally self-centered. But freedom in old age is the ability to be… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
Heads in the Women's Ward On pillow after pillow lies The wild white hair and staring eyes; Jaws stand open; necks are… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
“That morning, he was afraid of becoming old, and it was a very specific kind of old age he feared, one which… — Daniel Alarcón Copy Share Image
Carmelia Montiel, a twenty-year-old virgin, had just bathed in orange-blossom water and was strewing rosemary leaves on Pilar Ternera's bed when the… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“She knew from listening to her grandmother that old age was made up of such remembrances of youth. But she didn’t want… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
Education is the food of youth, the delight of old age, the ornament of prosperity, the refuge and comfort of adversity, and… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
“Parker, I'm old," She said matter-of-factly. "I get away with these things." She continued to wave and smile wildly. "People treat me… — Abby Slovin Copy Share Image
“For The Fallen" With proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children, England mourns for her dead across the sea. Flesh of her… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Never have I enjoyed youth so thoroughly as I have in my old age. In writing Dialogues in Limbo, The Last Puritan,… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
“Her mind still worked, her feet still moved, she could walk, though only with the help of a walker, but walk she… — Dubravka Ugrešić Copy Share Image
I'm eighty-three and homeless. It was the same when World War II ended. The Army kept me on because I could type,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“If I'd taken Fox's powers, I could've lived for hundreds of years, known and loved many people. But then I would've had… — Janie Chang Copy Share Image
It doesn't behoove elderly persons to follow fashion in their thinking nor in the way they dress. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
When I was young my teachers were the old. I gave up fire for form till I was cold. — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
There is always some chance of recession in any year. But the evidence suggests that expansions don't die of old age. — Janet Yellen Copy Share Image
