I have always lived my life exactly as I wanted. I've tried to please no one but myself... but I'm entirely content.… — Katharine Hepburn Copy Share Image
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You will perceive by my preaching that I am growing old: it is the privilege of years, and I am sure you… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
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In old age our bodies are worn-out instruments, on which the soul tries in vain to play the melodies of youth. But… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
STAGES OF LIFE: TEENS: you have all the time and energy but no money. WORKERS: you have the money and energy but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Age's terms of peace, after the long interlude of war with life, have still to be concluded-Youth must keep decently away-so many… — Eugene O'Neill Copy Share Image
Old age is the fourth stage. By the time one reaches this stage of his journey, he must have discovered that the… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
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Poetry is related to philosophy as experience is related to empirical science. Experience makes us acquainted with the phenomenon in the particular… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Oh! if to dance all night, and dress all day, Charm'd the small-pox, or chas'd old age away; . . . .… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Old age doth in sharp pains abound; We are belabored by the gout, Our blindness is a dark profound, Our deafness each… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I realized it might be possible to do such a thing, run for money, trot for wages on piece work at a… — Alan Sillitoe Copy Share Image
[On Malcolm Muggeridge:] He thinks he was knocked off his horse by God, like St. Paul on the road to Damascus. His… — Katharine Whitehorn Copy Share Image
The greatest tragedy of old age is the tendency for the old to feel unneeded, unwanted, and of no use to anyone;… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
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I'm growing fonder of my staff; I'm growing dimmer in the eyes; I'm growing fainter in my laugh; I'm growing deeper in… — John Godfrey Saxe Copy Share Image
A woman tells her doctor, 'I've got a bad back.' The doctor says, 'It's old age.' The woman says, 'I want a… — Tommy Cooper Copy Share Image
We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
Old age hath yet his honor and his toil. Death closes all; but something ere the end, Some work of noble note,… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
Whatever happens, whether you get rich or stay poor, ruin your health or live to old age, you always end up back… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
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Not in vain is Ireland pouring itself all over the earth. The Irish, with their glowing hearts and reverent credulity, are needed… — Lydia M. Child Copy Share Image
Nature, with her customary beneficence, has ordained that man shall not learn how to live until the reasons for living are stolen… — Giacomo Leopardi Copy Share Image
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As for my father, few souls are less troubled. He can be simply pleased with us, pleased that we exist, and, from… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
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Old age brings along with its uglinesses the comfort that you will soon be out of it, - which ought to be… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
All this [Paul's writing] is nothing better than the jargon of a conjurer who picks up phrases he does not understand to… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Old men when they begin to hear the last trumpet, on the morning breeze, often have a kind of absent-minded smile; like… — Joyce Cary Copy Share Image
Artists of all sorts remain youthful for so long, and in many cases attain a grand old age. The explanation is that… — Egon Friedell Copy Share Image
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