Nothing is more despicable than the old age of a passionate man. When the vigour of youth fails him, and his amusements… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
I am involved in a lot of nonprofits. And when I reached the ripe old age of 60, I wanted to provide… — David Rubenstein Copy Share Image
Superfluous lags the veteran on the stage, Till pitying Nature signs the last release, And bids afflicted worth retire to peace. — Samuel Johnson 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
“When a man rides a long time through wild regions he feels the desire for a city. Finally he comes to Isidora,… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
What one has wished for in youth, in old age one has in abundance. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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
“The land of easy mathematics where he who works adds up and he who retires subtracts.” — Núria Añó Copy Share Image
“Wild animals almost never die of old age: starvation, disease, or predators catch up with them long before they become really senile.… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Buzurjmihr esteems knowledge more highly than wealth, with reference to the anecdote cited below, According to the hadîth, flattery is permissible only… — Franz Rosenthal Copy Share Image
“Gerontologists studying the aging process find increasing evidence that most of us will age with a fair degree of success. There’s far… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
I tend not to think about living to some grand old age. Then again, I don't think about dying, either. — Stella Young Copy Share Image
“The moon and sun are travelers of a hundred generations. The years, coming and going, are wanderers too. Spending a lifetime adrift… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
Then Old Age and Experience, hand in hand, Lead him to death, and make him understand, After a search so painful and… — John Wilmot Copy Share Image
Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion. — Maggie Kuhn Copy Share Image
“ Domine ad adjuvandum me festina , they sang. O Lord, make haste to save me. It was true, they felt that… — Stewart O'Nan Copy Share Image
There is a slow-growing beauty which only comes to perfection in old age.... I have seen sweeter smiles on a lip of… — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
The finest virtues can become deformed with age. The precise mind becomes finicky; the thrifty man, miserly; the cautious man, timorous; the… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
“You take a straight tip from the stable, Cokey, if you must hate, hate the government or the people or the sea… — Joyce Cary Copy Share Image
“in old age you are more deeply practised, so to speak. Life has taken its shape. The fundamental decisions have been made.… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
With Nature never do they wage A foolish strife; they see A happy youth, and their old age Is beautiful and free. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
