Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Anyone who claimed that old age had brought them patience was either lying or senile. — Robert Jordan Copy Share Image
In my old age I've come to find that if you respect other people, you feel better about yourself. — Bijou Phillips Copy Share Image
What makes old age so sad is, not that our joys, but that our hopes then cease. — Jean Paul Copy Share Image
It is important to remember that aging and growing old are not necessarily the same. — Senora Roy Copy Share Image
“He returned to Cambridge feeling, at the ripe old age of twenty, that life was passing him by.” — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I can't minimize the terror factor. As you get older you get more and more frightened because the terrible indignities of old… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age. — Lactantius Copy Share Image
“was coming to that troubled twilight time, a time of regrets that resemble hopes, of hopes that resemble regrets, when youth is… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
The brain has a quality referred to as plasticity. The ability to form new neural pathways even into very old age. The… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
“In that moment I think I learned the real tragedy of living too long. It is not losing one's health or one's… — Louis Auchincloss Copy Share Image
What we are seeing in America is the creaky old age of an eighteenth-century settlement, deemed at the time to be the… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
“The human birthright includes the possibility of an easy death at extreme old age if we are healthy. Alternatively, we may experience… — Steve Solomon Copy Share Image
“When we age we shed many skins: ego, arrognace, dominance, self-opionated, unreliable, pessimism, rudeness, selfish, uncaring ... Wow, it's good to be old!” — Stephen Richards Copy Share Image
For the short-lived bloom and contracted span of brief and wretched life is fast fleeting away! While we are drinking and calling… — Juvenal Copy Share Image
Time, in general, has always been a central obsession of mine - what it does to people, how it can constitute a… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
The supreme duty of the Nation is the conservation of human resources through an enlightened measure of social and industrial justice. We… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“I may enter a zone of transcendence, in which I marvel at all the accidents of fate, since the beginning of life… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
“Friends!’ interposed the man, in a voice which rattled in his throat. ‘if I lay dead at the bottom of the deepest… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“The antithetical or perhaps mirror image to sadness is the experience, similarly unique to one's late years, of a swift, mysterious wave… — Carolyn Heilbrun Copy Share Image
“Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rage at close of day; Rage, rage against the… — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
“Buzurjmihr esteems knowledge more highly than wealth, with reference to the anecdote cited below, According to the hadîth, flattery is permissible only… — Franz Rosenthal Copy Share Image
“9. Abraham’s death (25:1 – 11) After Sarah’s death, Abraham took another wife, Keturah. Abraham was a rejuvenated old man and continued… — John H. Sailhamer Copy Share Image
“Her grandmother had a life, a life Claire hadn't known about or even imagined. She had tried so hard to know everything… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
Whether we live to a vigorous old age lies not so much in our stars or in our genes but in ourselves. — George Vaillant Copy Share Image
I think old age is in each one's head; so if you're happy doing what you love, you're going to be young. — Anderson Silva Copy Share Image
One of the things you realize about gettin older is that not everybody is goin to get older with you. — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
Life moves out of a red flare of dreams Into a common light of common hours, Until old age brings the red… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Old married people look so much alike that they have the same number of hairs in their ears. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Our hands meet for an instant and she withdraws quickly, frightened she might catch something. Old age perhaps.” — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
In youth we want to change the world; in old age, we want to change the youth. — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
This week, a 95-year-old woman married a 98-year-old man to become the world's oldest newlyweds. They're registered at Bed, Sponge Bath and… — Jimmy Fallon Copy Share Image
Old age is better for women than for men. First of all, they have less far to fall, since their lives are… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
The first of America's 79 million baby boomers turned 60 this month. Time flies when you're growing old. — Craig Wilson Copy Share Image
I am in the pitiable situation of feeling all the force of temptation without having the strength to succumb to it. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Give me a staff of honor for mine age, But not a sceptre to control the world. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Great is Youth--equally great is Old Age--great are Day and Night. Great is Wealth--great is Poverty--great is Expression-great is Silence. — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“Memories were such fleeting things, yet the human brain stored them like food for the winter of old age.” — Victoria Bylin Copy Share Image
Yes, I am Canadian, having sailed here from England on a Russian boat called the Alexander Pushkin when I was the ripe… — David Hewlett Copy Share Image
