Old age is, so to speak, the sanctuary of ills: they all take refuge in it. — Antiphanes Copy Share Image
The delights of reading impart the vivacity of youth even to old age. — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
“Ruthless is the temper of royalty; How much better to live among the equals.Let me decline in a safe old age. The… — Euripides Copy Share Image
The truth was that I could not manage my soul, and I was becoming aware of old age because of my weakness… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
You cant reach old age by another man's road, my habits protect my life but they would assassinate you — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Do not go gentle into the good night. Old age should burn and rage at close of day. — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you're learning you're not old. — Anonymous 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
So here I sit in the early candle-light of old age-I and my book-casting backward glances over out travel'd road. — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“Old ones should respect the energy of youths and youths should respect the experience of old ones.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Greatness is never appreciated in youth, called pride in midlife, dismissed in old age, and reconsidered in death. Because we cannot tolerate… — J. Michael Straczynski Copy Share Image
No sociologist should think himself too good, even in his old age, to make tens of thousands of quite trivial computations in… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
Old age is your own creation: it can be a misery, it can be a celebration; it can be simply a despair,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“As ever, you are wiser than I, you old genie. May the Stars grant that you are always here to look after… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
There is a built-in danger in old age which, if we give in to it, makes aging one of the most difficult… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
“Decluttering and downsizing before I am forced to do so also means my kids will have less work and stress when I… — Lisa J. Shultz Copy Share Image
“It is, perhaps, impossible to proportion exactly the price of labor to the profits it produces; and it will also be said,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“Desperately. Tally searched her brain for a prayer. Any prayer. Now I lay me down to sleep... No! Not that one. Hail… — Cherry Adair Copy Share Image
“It’s all Dhamma if we have mindfulness. When we see the animals that run away from danger, we see that they are… — Ajahn Chah Copy Share Image
“The real difference between God and human beings, he thought, was that God cannot stand continuance. No sooner has he created a… — Karen Blixen Copy Share Image
It is not possible, for a poet, writing in any language, to protect himself from the tragic elements in human life… [ellipsis… — Louise Bogan Copy Share Image
“On pillow after pillow lies The wild white hair and staring eyes; Jaws stand open; necks are stretched With every tendon sharply… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
“For myself, hand on heart, those things never bothered me. It is one of the graces of married life that for some… — Sebastian Barry Copy Share Image
I have had a fairly long life, above all a very happy one, and I think that I shall be remembered with… — Antoine Lavoisier Copy Share Image
“Granny Trill and Granny Wallon were traditional ancients of a kind we won’t see today, the last of that dignity of grandmothers… — Laurie Lee Copy Share Image
“Laziness - The laziness of adolescence is a rehearsal for the incapacity of old age.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
He that dies in extreme old age will be reduced to the same state with him that is cut down untimely. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
In the old age of love as in life we still survive for the evils, though no longer for the pleasures. — Francois La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength faileth. — Bible Copy Share Image
Some people simply grow old, but they never grow UP. Clearly he is becoming more of an assoholic in his old age. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only… — Ira Gershwin Copy Share Image
Alas, Postumus, the fleeting years slip by, nor will piety give any stay to wrinkles and pressing old age and untamable death. — Horace Copy Share Image
I always liked people who are older. Of course, every year it gets harder to find them. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
My mother enjoyed old age, and because of her I've begun to enjoy parts of it too. So far I've had it… — Lionel Blue Copy Share Image
Beyond age, leaf withered, man goes three footed no stronger than a child is, a dream that falters in daylight. — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
“In old age her voice had become thin as a bird's, but her reading was still beautiful to him.” — Pauline Smith Copy Share Image
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