That's one of the privileges of old age - you can give plenty of advice 'cause most folks think that's all you… — Gloria Naylor Copy Share Image
In youth, the days are short and the years are long. In old age, the years are short and days long. — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
“How terrible, Jack thought, to be old and know that your life has been wasted.” — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
I think people would live a bit longer if they didn't know how old they were. Age puts restrictions on things. — Karl Pilkington Copy Share Image
Every period of life has its peculiar prejudices; whoever saw old age, that did not applaud the past, and condemn the present… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“A remark of my brother’s apropos of the troubles and pains our mother endured: “Old age is nature’s self-criticism.” — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week. — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
I want a comfortable old age and to be looked after - I have arthritis - and money is a factor. — Miriam Margolyes Copy Share Image
“... this ninety-five-year-old man came hiking twenty-five miles over the mountain. Know why he could do it? Because no one ever told… — Christopher McDougall Copy Share Image
It was a meditation on life, love, old age, death: ideas that had often fluttered around her head like nocturnal birds but… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending; a negligent youth is usually attended by… — Anne Bradstreet Copy Share Image
“And now again the story of Tripoli changes. But whatever the outcome, she will have still her limpid skies, her air like… — Mabel Loomis Todd Copy Share Image
Then there's that 'You're only as old as you feel' business, which is true to a point, but you can't be Shirley… — Joan Crawford Copy Share Image
“Jealousy in old age sometimes goes to ridiculous lengths. Owing to the overabundance of women here, the married ladies do not like… — Hendrik Groen Copy Share Image
Even to your old age and gray hairs I am he, I am he who will sustain you. I have made you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In old age the consolation of hope is reserved for the tenderness of parents, who commence a new life in their children,… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“To what nadir of paltriness , pettiness, and squalor a man can sink! How could he change so! But is this really… — Nikolai Gogol Copy Share Image
Jason Oliver C. Smith, a big dumb guy who was tan, died March 30 of lung cancer and old age. He was… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“I mean, we don’t have to worry about it until winter, anyway,” she said. “I was just wondering if you felt cured.”… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
The Tibetans are dirty. They wash once a year and, except for festivals, seldom change their clothes till they begin to drop… — Isabella Bird Copy Share Image
The other producer of old age is habit: the deathly process of doing the same thing in the same way at the… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
I have been writing my heart out all my life, but only getting a living out of it now… ... it's not… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“And one asks oneself where are one's dreams. And one shakes one's head and says how rapidly the years fly by! And… — Fiódor Dostoiévski Copy Share Image
“Early youth is a baffling time. The present moment is nice but it does not last. Living in it is like waiting… — Bruce Catton Copy Share Image
I fear vastly more a futile, incompetent old age than I do any form of death. — William Allen White Copy Share Image
“One of the first steps to successful leadership is to forget your age and remember your dream.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Is this the final treachery of time, that the old become a burden upon the young? — Winifred Holtby Copy Share Image
We will be the old ladies dancing in the grocery store showing the young girls how its done...silly old ladies with silly… — Megan Marie Copy Share Image
In middle age, I practiced feeling old, but the real thing has been a rude surprise. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
“Old people are attached to many irrelevant things because the relevant things don't value them.” — Amit Abraham Copy Share Image
In my old age, I was at last being permitted to make the discovery that lovemaking gets better and better with time,… — Patricia Nell Warren 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
When I'm in front of an audience, all that love and vitality sweeps over me and I forget my age. — George Burns 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
“Old age is an insult. Old age is a slap in the face. It sabotages a fine mind (...).” — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
I begin to find an idle and fond bondage in the oppression of aged tyranny, who sways, not as it hath power,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
My life, I realize suddenly, is July. Childhood is June, and old age is August, but here it is, July, and my… — Rick Bass Copy Share Image
That's the purpose of old age... To give us a breathing space before we die, in which to see why we did… — Colleen McCullough Copy Share Image
In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
