I would rather be old for a shorter time than be old before my time. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“Avoid the stage of old age sit in the audience, it's all the rage” — Benny Bellamacina Copy Share Image
The wonderful thing about modern medicine is that so many of these complaints that used to signify old age and decline can… — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
An intemperate, disorderly youth will bring to old age, a feeble and worn-out body. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
I thought I'd live to a ripe old age, because I always felt there was a lot to do. I had a… — Debbie Harry Copy Share Image
For the complete life, the perfect pattern includes old age as well as youth and maturity. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
When you're 20 you can put a ton of old-age prosthetics on and be an old guy, but when you're 70 you… — Bob Odenkirk Copy Share Image
Monkey will be monkeys little monkeys but if you take their banana they going take yours — MrAwesome Copy Share Image
We all wish to reach a ripe old age, but none of us are prepared to admit that we are already there. — Francisco de Quevedo Copy Share Image
The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies fast away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and women,… — Juvenal Copy Share Image
“The baronet, in his old age, had been cast up by his vices on the shores of melancholy; heavy-eyed, grey-haired, bent, he… — Barry Pain Copy Share Image
“I wept for relationships not possible due to denial and dreams locked in the back of people’s minds, all of the bits… — Christopher Hawke Copy Share Image
A graceful and blessed old age must have three elements in it: a happy retrospect, a peaceful present, and an inspiring future.… — Lyman Abbott Copy Share Image
The crucial task of old age is balance: keeping just well enough, just brave enough, just gay and interested and starkly honest… — Florida Scott-Maxwell Copy Share Image
“In contrast to what you’d expect, narrow-mindedness increases and tolerance lessens with the onset of old age. “Old and wise” is the… — Hendrik Groen Copy Share Image
Is suffering so very serious? ...I'm referring to the kind of suffering a man inflicts on a woman or a woman on… — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Copy Share Image
“Be kind to men of every race and clime, my companions. They are the food for your God-ward journey. But be especially… — Mikhail Naimy Copy Share Image
If you have only two or three things that you can enjoy and they are things which time and decay may remove… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
I am afraid, ... that health begins, after seventy, and often long before, to have a meaning different from that which it… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
“For Nature, if she once endows man or woman with romance, gives them so rich a store of it as shall last… — John Meade Falkner Copy Share Image
“For years it seemed to me that this period had become a recurrent nightmare that I had almost every night, because I… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“the sense of a small courageous community barely existing above the desert of trees, hemmed in by a sun too fierce to… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“I was gripped by the misery of life as Buddha was in his youth when he saw sickness, old age, pain and… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“[About the main character approaching death in old age, observed by her husband . . .] He saw that she had already… — Michael D. O'Brien Copy Share Image
“Although we don’t like to think about it, it seems that sorrow and suffering are inevitable in any human life, even a… — Norman Fischer 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
“Give someone more time and they'll appear to have done more with it.” — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
There is no place in which to hide when Age comes seeking for his bride. — Joyce Kilmer Copy Share Image
My age I will not once lament, / But sing, my time so near is spent. — Anne Bradstreet Copy Share Image
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