Where nothing in a person's earlier years lends itself to an old age devoted to continuing intellectual and physical pursuits, a late-life… — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt, as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear. — Paul H. Dunn Copy Share Image
Besides, wouldn't it be wonderful if no one ever had to worry about the random cruelty of fatal illness or the woes… — Joan D. Vinge Copy Share Image
“Some old people keep young at heart in spite of wrinkles and gray hairs, can sympathize with children's little cares and joys,… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Conquest, tyranny, treachery, and the clash of cultures bring about corrupt societies, and so does old age. Sometimes the five faces of… — Robert Payne Copy Share Image
Oh, I never meant, in my old age, to become subject to the thrall of a love like this; it is almost… — Celia Thaxter Copy Share Image
Oh! if to dance all night, and dress all day, Charm'd the small-pox, or chas'd old age away; . . . .… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“I can't really tell how old I am, only that I'm too young to wonder if I asked the right questions in… — Gabriel Bá Copy Share Image
“I was sent forth from the power, and I have come to those who reflect upon me, and I have been found… — George W. Macrae Copy Share Image
“This world, for aught he knows, is very faulty and imperfect, compared to a superior standard; and was only the first rude… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“It happened to me the year I retired. You reach a certain age, and it all kicks in: Social Security, Medicare, and… — Sigrid Nunez Copy Share Image
Now, settle down, settle down. Hell, I'm an old man, it's early in the morning and I'm gathering my thoughts here. — Donald Rumsfeld Copy Share Image
“There is so little joy in any life, I will take this time with you until I must go." He smoothed a… — Barbara Samuel Copy Share Image
an old woman ... is a person who has no sense of decency; if once she takes to living, the devil himself… — Fanny Burney Copy Share Image
Life is not stationary. Seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, and years all tick away at the same clip for everyone. No… — Hugh W. Pinnock Copy Share Image
Old people who live too long come to resemble turtles. As though time turned in a curve, and down they go to… — Josephine Winslow Johnson Copy Share Image
The rapid progress of the sciences makes me sorry, at times, that I was born so soon. Imagine the power that man… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The air is an extremely dangerous, jealous and exacting mistress. Once under the spell most lovers are faithful to the end, which… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
At any age we must cherish illusions, consolatory or merely pleasant; in youth, they are omnipresent; in old age we must search… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
