In youth all doors open outward; in old age all open inward. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“Magic was precarious by nature, and potatoes were safe by comparison.” — Michelle Franklin Copy Share Image
“You'd think old age was a criminal offense, not a destination we're all heading to.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“I am not disappointed by my old age. There are still stories to tell, paths to walk, and fire within that refuses… — Bhuwan Thapaliya Copy Share Image
The follies of youth become the vices of manhood and the disgrace of old age. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Old age is a flight of small cheeping birds skimming bare trees above a snow glaze. — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
Cato requested old men not to add the disgrace of wickedness to old age, which was accompanied with many other evils. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Fine # wine is a living liquid ... Its life comprises youth, maturity, old age, and death. — Julia Child Copy Share Image
Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I am an old man, but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be,… — Pablo Casals Copy Share Image
In America, people rarely stay in the town where they grew up, rarely stay in close proximity to their parents throughout their… — Robert Benton 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
In our daily lives problems are bound to arise. The biggest problems in our lives are the ones that we inevitably have… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
There is this difference between the grief of youth and that of old age; youth's burden is lightened by as much of… — O. Henry Copy Share Image
Youth is the season of receptivity, and should be devoted to acquirement; and manhood of power--that demands an earnest application. Old age… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
You need someone to ground you because if you start believing that your public persona is your only and real persona, then… — John Nettles Copy Share Image
“He had a frozen, wide-eyed look to his face, I remember, the way some old people do, like they are perpetually startled… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
I frequently hear persons in old age say how they would live, if they were to live their lives over again: Resolved,… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
“For Montaigne, the death of youth, which so often takes place unnoticed is the harder death; what we habitually refer to as… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“I am deep in my willed habits. From the outside, I suppose I look like an unoccupied house with one unconvincing night-light… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
“As his hero and heroine pass the matrimonial barrier, the novelist generally drops the curtain, as if the drama were over then:… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
“[You for] the fragrant-blossomed Muses’ lovely gifts [be zealous,] girls, [and the] clear melodious lyre: [but my once tender] body old age… — Sappho Copy Share Image
We are at that very point in time when a 400-year-old age is dying and another is struggling to be born -… — Dee Hock Copy Share Image
Aristotle said that philosophy begins in wonder. I believe it also ends in wonder. The ultimate way in which we relate to… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
“For The Fallen" With proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children, England mourns for her dead across the sea. Flesh of her… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In the old age black was not counted fair, Or if it were, it bore not beauty’s name. But now is black… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
About the only thing that comes to us without effort is old age. — Gloria Pitzer 1979 Copy Share Image
When one begins to think of oneself as growing old, one is already old. — Elsie de Wolfe Copy Share Image
Meanness is incurable; it cannot be cured by old age, or by anything else. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
![“[You for] the fragrant-blossomed Muses’ lovely gifts [be zealous,] girls, [and the] clear melodious lyre: [but my once tender] body old age now [has seized;] my hair’s turned [white] instead of dark; my heart’s grown heavy, my knees will not support me, that once on a time were fleet for the dance…” quote by Sappho](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/766/sappho-4562_old-age_you-for-the-fragrant-blossomed-muses-lov_1015183.jpg)
