“Old age is the most unexpected of all things that can happen to a man.” — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
My Bubbie lived to 104, which is probably a little too old to consider a ripe old age, because she had already… — Gilbert Gottfried Copy Share Image
Whoever lives for poetry must read everything. How often has the light of a new idea sprung for me from a simple… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
“Old age can be a deceiver. My knees ache when I walk, but if I sit still, I do not feel so… — Phyllis T. Smith Copy Share Image
I admire those people who hold on to their elegance in old age but I'd rather have fun. — Heather Graham Copy Share Image
And Gideon the son of Joash died in a good old age, and was buried in the sepulchre of Joash his father,… — Bible Copy Share Image
“A generous intercourse of charity united the most distant provinces, and the smaller congregations were cheerfully assisted by the alms of their… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“I don't see why there should be a point where everyone decides you're too old. I'm not too old, and until I… — Lemmy Kilmister Copy Share Image
“Death is coming—but hopefully not before old age, decrepitude, and senility. ” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“As a young woman in college, I had no inkling about the sufferings of old age. Proper communication would have informed me… — Laura Bartnick Copy Share Image
“Life has always seemed to me like a plant that lives on its rhizome,’ he wrote. ‘The part that appears above ground… — Anthony Stevens 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
If a man lives to any considerable age, it can not be denied that he laments his imprudences, but I notice he… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Youth is the time to study wisdom; old age is the time to practice it. — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau Copy Share Image
And now I am eking out my days in my corner, taunting myself with the bitter and entirely useless consolations that an… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
In my cranky old age, I actually prefer recording alone now, on 'The Simpsons,' for example, because I find that the director… — Hank Azaria Copy Share Image
“If someone dies of anything other than extreme old age and natural causes, and often even then the death leaves a great… — Tyler Dilts Copy Share Image
“Poetry… it consumed Sappho’s young years, it nourished Goethe’s old age. Drug, the Greeks called it, both poison and medicine.” — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
A woman tells her doctor, 'I've got a bad back.' The doctor says, 'It's old age.' The woman says, 'I want a… — Tommy Cooper Copy Share Image
“Your youth is certainly finished and old age has definitely arrived if you feel that you are losing enthusiasm, excitement and energy… — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age. — Lydia M. Child Copy Share Image
“As an unavoidable result of the inevitable loss of some physical and/or some mental abilities, many a man who has been alive… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Longevity has fucked up our pensions, our work–life balance, our health services, our housing, our happiness. It’s fucked up old age itself.” — Margaret Drabble Copy Share Image
She wasn't a victim of fate, she was running her own risks, pushing beyond her own limits, experiencing things which, one day,… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
