God is favorable to those whom he makes to die by degrees; 'tis the only benefit of old age. The last death… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“. . . to my surprise I began to know what The Language was about, not just the part we were singing… — Monica Furlong Copy Share Image
“It occurred to me that among the charms of old age are the provocations our young female friends permit themselves because they… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
Old age is catching up with me, or am I catching up with it? — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
A man's character never changes radically from youth to old age. What happens is that circumstances bring out characteristics which had not… — Hesketh Pearson Copy Share Image
[On being the oldest living human being:] God must have forgotten me. — Jeanne Calment Copy Share Image
Life grows darker as we go on, till only one pure light is left shining on it; and that is faith. Old… — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Old age is the night of life, as night is the old age of the day. Still, night is full of magnificence;… — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
To be perfectly honest, I think that as I'm growing older, I'm just growing more impatient. I'll be very happy if at… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
“They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At… — John Ringo Copy Share Image
“Too many men have died in the name of old age. I know, because my grandmother was one of them.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“Ruthless is the temper of royalty; How much better to live among the equals.Let me decline in a safe old age. The… — Euripides Copy Share Image
“Fanfare for the Makers A cloud of witnesses. To whom? To what? To the small fire that never leaves the sky. To… — Louis MacNeice Copy Share Image
“The central fact of biblical history, the birth of the Messiah, more than any other, presupposes the design of Providence in the… — Vladimir Solovyov Copy Share Image
“The power of a boy's dream is one of life's little miracles, the way it wraps itself around the heart and remains… — Tom Verducci Copy Share Image
Alas, how right the ancient saying is: We, who are old, are nothing else but noise And shape. Like mimicries of dreams… — Euripides Copy Share Image
Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that happen to a man. — Michelle Villaflor Amante Copy Share Image
“Thou still unravish’d bride of quietness, Thou foster-child of silence and slow time, Sylvan historian, who canst thus express A flowery tale… — John Keats Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you'd never complete your life, would… — Marilyn Monroe Copy Share Image
There are three signs of old age: loss of memory ... I forget the other two. — Red Skelton Copy Share Image
I am getting old and the sign of old age is that I begin to philosophize and ponder over problems which should… — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image