“[I have] a deeply entrenched rule that I cannot rest or relax until all my work is done. What a deal. I… — Mary Bray Pipher Copy Share Image
In the City of Death, there is pitch darkness and huge clouds of dust, neither sister nor brother is there. This body… — Guru Gobind Singh Copy Share Image
“The trouble is that old age is not interesting until one gets there, a foreign country with an unknown language to the… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
Old age has got to start creeping up on me one day soon, and frankly I'm very scared. I don't want to… — David Niven Copy Share Image
“Oh! if to dance all night, and dress all day, Charm'd the small-pox, or chased old age away; Who would not scorn… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
In this respect early youth is exactly like old age; it is a time of waiting for a big trip to an… — Bruce Catton Copy Share Image
Nevertheless, whether in occurrences lasting days, hours or mere minutes at a time, I have experienced happiness often, and have had brief… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
[On her 101-year-old sister and herself, at 103:] We have a lot to do ... People don't understand this. They think we're… — Sarah Louise Delany Copy Share Image
“There we were last summer, having a picnic in a sylvan setting. Birds were singing, the atmosphere was full of soft colours;… — Adrian Bell 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
“...one or both of those babies could be president one day. Or they could discover the cure for a terrible disease, or… — Ann B. Ross Copy Share Image
“Observing any human being from infancy, seeing someone come into existence, like a new flower in bud, each petal first tightly furled… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
“It saddened her that Luo insisted on holding on to her as if they had started to share some vital organs during… — Yiyun Li Copy Share Image
The best Armour of Old Age is a well spent life preceding it; a Life employed in the Pursuit of useful Knowledge,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Books are like people: fascinating, inspiring, thought-provoking, some laugh, some meditate, others ache with old age, but still have wisdom: some are… — Gladys Hunt Copy Share Image
“I just got a rather nasty shock. In looking for something or other I came across the fact that one of my… — Edward Gorey Copy Share Image
I thought that if I were going into old age I would want to do what [Giuseppe] Verdi did, which is to… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“the ~25% lower mortality from all other causes (a catch-all category in which the most common cause of death is old age)… — Paul Appleby Copy Share Image
“I blushed. You haven't seen a bald man in his sixties blush? Oh, it happens, just as it does to a hairy,… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
One thing they don't tell you about growing old - you don't feel old, you just feel like yourself. And it's true.… — Betty White Copy Share Image
Studies are the food of youth, the delight of old age; the ornament of prosperity, the refuge and comfort of adversity; a… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“One Must Always Remember That Birth, Old Age, Disease And Death Comes At Any Moment In Regardless Of Whom We Are Or… — Baba Tunde Ojo-Olubiyo Copy Share Image
“I'm past competing in pissing contests. My jet stream is now more of a trickle. The only contest I'd win is the… — Brian MacLearn Copy Share Image
Youth is full of sport, age's breath is short; youth is nimble, age is lame; Youth is hot and bold, age is… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Millions of people are afraid of the past, the future, old age, insanity and death. But fear is a thought in your… — Joseph Murphy Copy Share Image
“For all his old age, and his one arm, and his blind eyes, he must die the death and be murdered, in… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
In their youth, mortals behave more like nymphs. Adulthood seems impossibly distant, let alone the enfeeblement of old age. But ponderously, inevitably,… — Brandon Mull Copy Share Image
To have a system that's fair and affordable we need to help more people into work, make sure we have decent and… — Rachel Reeves Copy Share Image
I have achieved my seventy years in the usual way, by sticking strictly to a scheme of life which would kill anybody… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“they think that you bear old age more [e] easily not because of the way you live but because you’re wealthy, for… — Plato Copy Share Image
You think it horrible that lust and rage Should dance attendance upon my old age; They were not such a plague when… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Like childhood, old age is irresponsible, reckless, and foolhardy. Children and old people have everything to gain and nothing much to lose.… — John Mortimer Copy Share Image
There are three kinds of power,--wealth, strength, and talent; but as old age always weakens, often destroys, the two latter, the aged… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“Old age breeds the miracle of recall. You have no short-term memory atall; you can’t remember what you did minutes ago, but… — Vicki Covington Copy Share Image
Florida was a living tomb, she used to tell anyone who'd listen, an old-age home in the shape of a state, God's… — Joy Fielding Copy Share Image
To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Chinese are a knowing people; and I daresay that is why they once made a religious odor about old age; to… — Christina Stead Copy Share Image
“I am an anomaly - a woman alone, too young to be widowed and too old to be looking for a mate.… — Linda Gillard Copy Share Image
Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age; and if you understand that old age has wisdom for its food,… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
![“[I have] a deeply entrenched rule that I cannot rest or relax until all my work is done. What a deal. I could die of old age before I have met all my responsibilities and done all my chores.” quote by Mary Bray Pipher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/dbf/mary-bray-pipher-54095_old-age_i-have-a-deeply-entrenched-rule-that-i-c_2466288.jpg)
![“[On her 101-year-old sister and herself, at 103:] We have a lot to do ... People don't understand this. They think we're sitting around in rocking chairs, which isn't at all true. Why, we don't even own a rocking chair.” quote by Sarah Louise Delany](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/e45/sarah-louise-delany-42812_age_on-her-101-year-old-sister-and-herself-a_1809483.jpg)
![“I thought that if I were going into old age I would want to do what [Giuseppe] Verdi did, which is to write extraordinary things, and to really find myself.” quote by Maurice Sendak](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d43/maurice-sendak-1273_age_i-thought-that-if-i-were-going-into-old_866054.jpg)
![“they think that you bear old age more [e] easily not because of the way you live but because you’re wealthy, for the wealthy, they say, have many consolations.” quote by Plato](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/918/plato-103_old-age_they-think-that-you-bear-old-age-more-e_1391864.jpg)
