On the day I swore to uphold the Hippocratic oath, the small hairs on the back of my neck stood up as… — Barbara Kingsolver 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
When I lie down to love, old dwarf heart shakes her head. Like an imbecile she was born old. — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
I fear vastly more a futile, incompetent old age than I do any form of death. — William Allen White Copy Share Image
Much violence against women originates in emotional territory that they already command. By midlife and early old age, as the hormones of… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
“1. Accept everything just the way it is. 2. Do not seek pleasure for its own sake. 3. Do not, under any… — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share Image
For those struggling in midstream, in great fear of the flood, of growing old and of dying for all those I say,… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
It's a whole different attitude toward public service than it once was. I tell you, we can all sit around in our… — Paul Volcker Copy Share Image
“As every blossom fades and all youth sinks into old age, so every life’s design, each flower of wisdom, attains its prime… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“But you've not explained why the quality of good is not inherent, but not that of evil. I say man has these… — Tendai Huchu Copy Share Image
Old age is somewhat like dieting. Every day there is less of us to be observed. — Doris Grumbach Copy Share Image
Today, when death and old age are increasingly concealed behind euphemisms and comforting baby talk, and life is threatened with being smothered… — Martin Esslin Copy Share Image
Old age is not a disease - it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and… — Maggie Kuhn Copy Share Image
“To what nadir of paltriness , pettiness, and squalor a man can sink! How could he change so! But is this really… — Nikolai Gogol Copy Share Image
“The Metropolitan Police has a very straightforward approach to murder investigations, not for them the detective’s gut instinct or the intricate logical… — Ben Aaronovitch Copy Share Image
Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age. — Lactantius Copy Share Image
Ideas are the old-age of art. Artists have to keep young; they must not think too much - thought is death, while… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
The counsels of old age give light without heat, like the sun in winter. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Kaida's attorney suggested a quit claim deed as the best vehicle for transferring Gail’s home into Kaida's name with a limiting clause… — Lynn Byk Copy Share Image
“Whether or not, he felt very much at home in this state. It was to places like this that they had sent… — Douglas Woolf Copy Share Image
Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“Look at this fog. The damp gets right into your bones. It's doing my chest no good at all. I'll need a… — Christopher Fowler Copy Share Image
