Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
He who wants to warm himself in old age must build a fireplace in his youth. — German Proverb Copy Share Image
War is created by people who are too old to fight for those who are too young to die. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
Animals are born and bred in litters. Solitude grows blessed and peaceful only in old age. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
I have gained no wisdom at all in my old age, but that's the only message I have. It's down to you,… — Sheila Hancock Copy Share Image
Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
With Nature never do they wage A foolish strife; they see A happy youth, and their old age Is beautiful and free. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
“Death would not surprise us as often as it does, if we let go of the misbelief that newborns are less mortal… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana 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
The things which the child loves remain in the domain of the heart until old age. The most beautiful thing in life… — Kahlil Gibran Copy Share Image
Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never comes when… — George Meredith Copy Share Image
Why do people talk of the horrors of old age? It's great. I feel like a fine old car with the parts… — Martha Gellhorn Copy Share Image
all the small squalors of the body, known only to oneself, insignificant in youth, easily dismissed, in old age became dominant and… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
Old age is the lubricant of belief. When death knocks at the door, skepticism flies out the window. A serious cardiovascular fright… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
Death during adolescence feels unfair. We're young. We're invincible. Death is supposed to come with old age. When death breaks into our… — Sara Shandler Copy Share Image
Nothing embitters my old age [like] the circulation of absurd stories that I retire as civilization advances, that I shun the white… — Daniel Boone Copy Share Image
Shorten my days thou canst with sullen sorrow, And pluck nights from me, but not lend a morrow; Thou canst help time… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Parents impatiently see us growing up. As old age is inevitable they gradually Become older and older. We seldom think it. But… — Pramod Wickramathilaka Copy Share Image
“The trick was to refuse to allow your pain to prevent you from living honorably. In Japan, she said, a person learned… — david guterson Copy Share Image
“Are your friends as good as MY friends? I can discern the nod of of assent but doubt it. My own friends… — Flann O'Brien Copy Share Image
“But today’s society is characterized by achievement orientation, and consequently it adores people who are successful and happy and, in particular, it… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
In Indiana we had a queen we named Alice which lived to the ripe old age of eight years and two months… — Jay Smith Copy Share Image
It is impossible not to be moved by the verve, courage and elan with Churchill attacked his last and ultimately invincible enemy,… — David Cannadine Copy Share Image
“Bleak pushed the chair around a corner so the light of the dying sun stained their faces a healthy red, and added,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Regina Schrambling is both hero and villain. My favorite villain, actually. The former New York Times and LA Times food writer and… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
The art of being officially old seems to lie in cooperative submission. — Anne Truitt Copy Share Image
It is not the end of joy that makes old age so sad, but the end of hope. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You know you are getting old when everything either dries up or leaks. — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
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