About the only thing that comes to us without effort is old age. — Gloria Pitzer 1979 Copy Share Image
When one begins to think of oneself as growing old, one is already old. — Elsie de Wolfe Copy Share Image
We have a great regard for old age when it is bottled. — Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar Copy Share Image
“You were young, I thought, not once but always before, always always, every day before the day just passed. You were young… — Timothy Schaffert Copy Share Image
The romance of life begins and ends with two blank pages. Age and extreme old age. — Jean Paul Copy Share Image
Other people salted away money for their old age, but Nanny preferred to accumulate memories. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“It seems like a long time, but what are nine years except for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and thinking about the past?” — Karl Kristian Flores Copy Share Image
Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
We all should start to live before we get too old. Fear is stupid,so are regrets. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long. — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
“Sons, they have their own plans, but a daughter or granddaughter, they will love you forever and take care of you in… — Craig Johnson Copy Share Image
The fear of old age is something that one feels when they're younger. Once you get to being old, you're already there,… — Paolo Sorrentino Copy Share Image
So may'st thou live, till like ripe fruit thou drop Into thy mother's lap, or be with ease Gathered, not harshly plucked,… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Youth, large, lusty, loving -- Youth, full of grace, force, fascination. Do you know that Old Age may come after you with… — Walt Whitman 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
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
“Discipline I am old and I have had more than my share of good and bad. I've had love and sorrow, seen… — Meryl Gordon Copy Share Image
“On pillow after pillow lies The wild white hair and staring eyes; Jaws stand open; necks are stretched With every tendon sharply… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
“For myself, hand on heart, those things never bothered me. It is one of the graces of married life that for some… — Sebastian Barry Copy Share Image
It is not possible, for a poet, writing in any language, to protect himself from the tragic elements in human life… [ellipsis… — Louise Bogan Copy Share Image
“Accept everything just the way it is. Do not seek pleasure for its own sake. Do not, under any circumstances, depend on… — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share Image
“On the ride back across the gray plains, the young cowboy – he was just twenty – looked rather despondent. Goodnight ignored… — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
“I was headed out down a long bone-white road, straight as a string and smooth as glass and glittering and wavering in… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
What am I then...? Everything that I have seen, heard, and observed I have collected and exploited. My works have been nourished… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
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