Was it the forgetfulness of old age or personal incapacity that made the man able to say please but not thank you? — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“The coward believes he will live forever If he holds back in the battle, But in old age he shall have no… — Hávamál - The of the high one Copy Share Image
“If Nature’s role is to bring cheer to a person’s life, it certainly doesn’t do the job in the room of a… — Hendrik Groen Copy Share Image
Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife, This simple boon I beg of Fate -… — Carolyn Wells Copy Share Image
And if I should live to be The last leaf upon the tree In the spring, Let them smile, as I do… — Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr Copy Share Image
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
“Maybe the conference was an inversion layer of another kind, bringing me face-to-face with old friends and old places. With cancer and… — Connie Willis Copy Share Image
I guess I just couldn't see standing there -- alive, talking, thinking, breathing, being -- one second, and dead the next. It… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A man's character never changes radically from youth to old age. What happens is that circumstances bring out characteristics which had not… — Hesketh Pearson Copy Share Image
I consider the 70s to be the youth of old age. So all you women out there who are afraid of getting… — Betty Dodson Copy Share Image
There is only one solution if old age is not to be an absurd parody of our former life, and that is… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“ Domine ad adjuvandum me festina , they sang. O Lord, make haste to save me. It was true, they felt that… — Stewart O'Nan Copy Share Image
On that first day when we look back, either happily or with remorse, to the stony ways over which we have traveled,… — Myrtle Reed Copy Share Image
At any given time, if you live long enough, old age catches you . . . the only choices we have in… — Rosa Montero Copy Share Image
“Whilst writing all this, I have had in my mind a woman, whose strong and serious mind would not have failed to… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
The labor movement was the principal force that transformed misery and despair into hope and progress. Out of its bold struggles, economic… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“Why do we despise, ostracize and punish the drug addict when as a social collective we share the same blindness and engage… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
“Old age. All the facial detail is visible; all the traces life has left there are to be seen. The face is… — Karl Ove Knausgård Copy Share Image
Kevin stopped where he was and stood there simply gazing at her. Molly sat cross-legged in the meadow with the sun shining… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips Copy Share Image
I did not know then how much was ended. When I look back now from this high hill of my old age,… — Black Elk Copy Share Image
I dont remember the last time I was happy. All I know is, I just woke up in this wicked place. This… — Broken Soul Copy Share Image
The greatest danger to an adequate old-age security plan is rising prices. A rise of 2% a year in prices would cut… — Sumner Slichter Copy Share Image
“At a certain age men began to shrink, and yet it was precisely at that age that their trousers became too short… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
A hundred things are done today in the divine name of Youth, that if they showed their true colors would be seen… — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age. — Hesiod Copy Share Image
When I came to power, I did not want the concentration camps to become old age pensioners homes, but instruments of terror. — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
The pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion. — Democritus Copy Share Image
“The older you get, the easier it is for you to distinguish between your friends and people you are not seeing for… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Then Abraham gave up the ghost, and died in a good old age, an old man, and full of years; and was… — Bible Copy Share Image
“Find someone to grow old with and you'll never grow old. Find a cause to live for and you'll never die” — Tolu' Akinyemi Copy Share Image
Praise be to Allah, Who has given me in old age Ismail and Ishaq; most surely my Lord is the Hearer of… — Quran Copy Share Image
“It seems like a long time, but what are nine years except for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and thinking about the past?” — Karl Kristian Flores Copy Share Image
Other people salted away money for their old age, but Nanny preferred to accumulate memories. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“You were young, I thought, not once but always before, always always, every day before the day just passed. You were young… — Timothy Schaffert Copy Share Image
The romance of life begins and ends with two blank pages. Age and extreme old age. — Jean Paul Copy Share Image
One needs only to get old to become milder; I don't see anyone make a mistake I hadn't also made. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
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