Do old people always live in the past? What yesterday was firm and true, may not be so today. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
Middle age ends and senescence begins, the day your descendant's outnumber your friends. — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
“Avarice, he assured them, was the one passion that grew stronger and sweeter in old age.” — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
White hair often covers the head, but the heart that holds it is ever young. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
When we were young and foolish people said we had a death wish. If we live to be old and tired, we… — Rock Cowles Copy Share Image
Youth wrenches the sceptre from old age, and sets the crown on its own head before it is entitled to it. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Old age is the repose of life; the rest that precedes the rest that remains. — Robert Collyer Copy Share Image
Once a happy old man One can never change the core of things, and light burns you the harder for it. — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
Human beings can be beautiful. If they are not beautiful it is entirely their own fault. It is what they do to… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
“They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At… — John Ringo Copy Share Image
“I don't see why there should be a point where everyone decides you're too old. I'm not too old, and until I… — Lemmy Kilmister Copy Share Image
The trouble is, old age is not interesting until one gets there. It's a foreign country with an unknown language to the… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
Is suffering so very serious? ...I'm referring to the kind of suffering a man inflicts on a woman or a woman on… — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Copy Share Image
“In contrast to what you’d expect, narrow-mindedness increases and tolerance lessens with the onset of old age. “Old and wise” is the… — Hendrik Groen Copy Share Image
“If one of them (your parents) or both of them attain old age in your life, say not "UF" to them, nor… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you have only two or three things that you can enjoy and they are things which time and decay may remove… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
“On the ride back across the gray plains, the young cowboy – he was just twenty – looked rather despondent. Goodnight ignored… — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
“I was headed out down a long bone-white road, straight as a string and smooth as glass and glittering and wavering in… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
“If any one thing in my experience, more than another, served to deepen my conviction of the infernal character of slavery, and… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Every funeral may justly be considered as a summons to prepare for that state into which it shows us that we must… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
I used to feel for years and years and years that I was very remiss not to have written a novel and… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
“Pitiful and pitied by no one, why have I come to the ignominy of this detestable old age, who was ruler of… — Eleanor of Aquitaine Copy Share Image
“The moon fled eastward like a frightened dove, while the stars changed their places in the heavens, like a disbanding army. 'Where… — Pedro Antonio de Alarcón 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
Learning maketh young men temperate, is the comfort of old age, standing for wealth with poverty, and serving as an ornament to… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Avarice, with all its black attendants, is confessedly a crime of old age, and seldom arrives at maturity till accompanied with gray… — Mary Collyer Copy Share Image
The death of rock was not a natural death. Rock did not die of old age. It was murdered, — Gene Simmons Copy Share Image
Grandchildren don't make a man feel old; it's the knowledge that he's married to a grandmother. — J. Norman Collie Copy Share Image
“The only things that old age comes standard with: grey hair and wrinkles. Wisdom and intellect are earned.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Friendship matters, especially in old age, when death reduces the number of one's friends.” — Marilyn Yalom Copy Share Image
I don't know what the big deal is about old age. Old people who shine from the inside look 10 to 20 years younger. — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
When we come to the sundown road, we need all the love we have managed to take with us from the summit… — Myrtle Reed Copy Share Image
Old age, especially an honoured old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
One good reason for writing novels based on your life is that you have something to read in old age when you've… — Nina Bawden Copy Share Image
When a man becomes old, his greed becomes young: sleep grows heavy at the time of morning. — Saib Tabrizi Copy Share Image
Why should we stunt our ambitions and impoverish our lives in order to be insulted and looked down upon in our old… — Joseph A. Schumpeter Copy Share Image
What you lose as you age is witnesses, the ones that watched from early on and cared, like your own little grandstand. — John Updike Copy Share Image
To make good use of life, one should have in youth the experience of advanced years, and in old age the vigor… — Stanisław I Leszczyński Copy Share Image
“Old people die not because no one cared for them but because someone they expected care from did not bother.” — Vipin Behari Goyal Copy Share Image
![“Pitiful and pitied by no one, why have I come to the ignominy of this detestable old age, who was ruler of two kingdoms, mother of two kings? My guts are torn from me, my family is carried off and removed from me. The young king [crown prince Henry, †1183] and the count of Britanny [prince…” quote by Eleanor of Aquitaine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/015/eleanor-of-aquitaine-52379_death-wish_pitiful-and-pitied-by-no-one-why-have-i_796292.png)
