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
“In contrast to what you’d expect, narrow-mindedness increases and tolerance lessens with the onset of old age. “Old and wise” is the… — Hendrik Groen Copy Share Image
Is suffering so very serious? ...I'm referring to the kind of suffering a man inflicts on a woman or a woman on… — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Copy Share Image
“Be kind to men of every race and clime, my companions. They are the food for your God-ward journey. But be especially… — Mikhail Naimy Copy Share Image
If you have only two or three things that you can enjoy and they are things which time and decay may remove… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
“If one of them (your parents) or both of them attain old age in your life, say not "UF" to them, nor… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My father was very energetic; my mother was very energetic. He lived to a very old age, and so did my mother.… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
“The baronet, in his old age, had been cast up by his vices on the shores of melancholy; heavy-eyed, grey-haired, bent, he… — Barry Pain Copy Share Image
Aristotle said that philosophy begins in wonder. I believe it also ends in wonder. The ultimate way in which we relate to… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
“For Montaigne, the death of youth, which so often takes place unnoticed is the harder death; what we habitually refer to as… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“I am deep in my willed habits. From the outside, I suppose I look like an unoccupied house with one unconvincing night-light… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
Why be thrifty when your old age and health care are provided for, no matter how profligate you act in your youth?… — David Frum Copy Share Image
“I have begun in old age to understand just how oddly we all are put together. We are so proud of our… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
The law of God, as quite plainly expressed in woman's construction, is this: There shall be no limit put upon your intercourse… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE … enough money within her control to move out and rent a place of her own even if… — Pamela Redmond Satran Copy Share Image
When an old Woman begins to doat [sic], and grow chargeable to a Parish, she is generally turned into a Witch,and fills… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“I wept for relationships not possible due to denial and dreams locked in the back of people’s minds, all of the bits… — Christopher Hawke Copy Share Image
Old age is never honored among us, but only indulged, as childhood is; and old men lose one of the most precious… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
You will recognize, my boy, the first sign of age: it is when you go out into the streets of London and… — Seymour Hicks Copy Share Image
“Grow old gracefully. Drop your desires when you lose ability to fulfill them. Otherwise you will try to fulfill them through others;… — Shunya 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 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
The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is… — Bob Wells Copy Share Image
“Strengthen your commitment to Christ—now. Don’t wait until the storms of temptation, or sickness, or old age threaten to blow you off-course;… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
“In my old age, I see that life is often more fantastic and terrible than stories we believed as children, and that… — Eowyn Ivey Copy Share Image
“A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind. Another question: why do… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The years of old age are stalls in the cathedral of life in which for aged men to sit and listen and… — William Mountford Copy Share Image
“It scared him a little. He had once heard, and was inclined to credit, that a loss of interest in living marked… — Robert Heinlein Copy Share Image
Freedom conceives that the mind and spirit of man can be free only if he is free to pattern his own life,… — Herbert Hoover 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
“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
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
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
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
“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
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
Parents impatiently see us growing up. As old age is inevitable they gradually Become older and older. We seldom think it. But… — Pramod Wickramathilaka Copy Share Image
“Here, on a human face, appeared all the ruin following upon hopeless labour. Laveuve's unkempt beard straggled over his features, suggesting an… — Émile Zola Copy Share Image
“But depression wasn't the word. This was a plunge encompassing sorrow and revulsion far beyond the personal: a sick, drenching nausea at… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
![“When an old Woman begins to doat [sic], and grow chargeable to a Parish, she is generally turned into a Witch,and fills the whole Country with extravagant Fancies, imaginary Distempers, and terrifying Dreams. In the mean time, the poor Wretch that is the innocent Occasion of so many Evils begins…” quote by Joseph Addison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/393/joseph-addison-377_business_when-an-old-woman-begins-to-doat-sic-and_2895449.jpg)
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