It’s [old age] not a surprise, we knew it was coming – make the most of it. So you may not be… — Betty White Copy Share Image
“If you can see through my eyes, you may see the real beauty I see in poor people, in old age homes,… — Ratish Edwards Copy Share Image
it is a mistake to talk of the twilight of age, or the blurred sight of old people. The long day grows… — Rebecca Harding Davis Copy Share Image
Life grows darker as we go on, till only one pure light is left shining on it; and that is faith. Old… — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
Alas, how right the ancient saying is: We, who are old, are nothing else but noise And shape. Like mimicries of dreams… — Euripides Copy Share Image
“In my old age, I see that life itself is often more fantastic and terrible than the stories we believed as children,… — Eowyn Ivey Copy Share Image
“He thought the column was magnificent, everything it said about old age was the best he had ever read, and it made… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“Do not let me hear Of the wisdom of old men, but rather of their folly, Their fear of fear and frenzy,… — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“For a patrimonial state to be stable over time, it is best ruled with consent, at least with consent from the largest… — Paul Kriwaczek Copy Share Image
“It’s odd how one’s memories of youth turn out so bleak. Why does the business of growing up—one’s recollections of growth itself—have… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
Gangsters live for the action. The closer to death, the nearer to the heated coil of the moment, the more alive they… — Lorenzo Carcaterra Copy Share Image
“Wild animals almost never die of old age: starvation, disease, or predators catch up with them long before they become really senile.… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“For other forms of relaxation are not so universally suited to all ages, times, and places; but these studies [of literature] sustain… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“Although Pulcheria Alexandrovna was forty-three, her face still retained traces of her former beauty; she looked much younger than her age, indeed,… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“George MacDonald made the following observation: Instead of crushing the power of evil by divine force; instead of compelling justice and destroying… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
“You may have noticed that the books you really love are bound together by a secret thread. You know very well what… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The major thing I'm afraid of is being 65 and saying, 'Gee, I wish I had done this and that, and that.'… — Harry Chapin Copy Share Image
All, all of a piece throughout; Thy chase had a beast in view; Thy wars brought nothing about; Thy lovers were all… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Securing dignity for everyone in old age means transforming support for families who look after their elderly and disabled loved ones, and… — Liz Kendall Copy Share Image
certain very old people reach an age where every funeral becomes some sort of insane confirmation of strength, rather than of vulnerability,… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
It's nice to have a lot of money, but you know, you don't want to keep it around forever. I prefer buying… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
“When my grandmother was sick in the hospital, I foolishly quoted her the saying, 'never regret growing old; it’s a privileged denied… — Dan Pearce Copy Share Image
“How old are you?" "Ten," answered Tangle. "You don't look like it," said the lady. "How old are you, please?" returned Tangle.… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
But no matter how they make you feel, you should always watch elders carefully. They were you and you will be them.… — Kent Nerburn Copy Share Image
Old age is as forgetful as youth, and more incorrigible; it displays the same inattentiveness to conditions; its memory becomes self-repeating and… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
When old age shall this generation waste, Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe Than ours, a friend to man, to… — John Keats Copy Share Image
A lot of people are frightened by old age - by being around people who are, basically, on their way out -… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
“Eliminate the Fear of Old Age by reaching a decision to accept it not as a handicap, but as a great blessing… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
“But the lucidity of her old age allowed her to see, and she said so many times, that the cries of children… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age,… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Old age is a disease from which there is no recovery but the old nun's recent attack had certainly been brought on… — Murasaki Shikibu Copy Share Image
“Talk to grandparents and every elderly people you come across because later, they will talk and you will listen. Hear them, they… — Bhavik Sarkhedi Copy Share Image
“For the last four years of her life, Mother was in a nursing home called Chateins in St. Louis ... [S]ix months… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
“As an unavoidable result of the inevitable loss of some physical and/or some mental abilities, many a man who has been alive… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Old age has the last word: the purely naturalistic look at life, however enthusiastically it may begin, is sure to end in… — William James Copy Share Image
The accumulation of great wealth is, in many instances, the effect of paying too little for the labor that produced it, the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
At age 20, we worry about what others think of us. At age 40, we don't care what they think of us.… — Ann Landers Copy Share Image
I used to think that eighty was a very old age. Now I am ninety. I do not think this any more.… — Pablo Casals Copy Share Image
There are six myths about old age: 1. That it's a disease, a disaster. 2. That we are mindless. 3. That we… — Maggie Kuhn Copy Share Image
I grew up in one of the most socially conservative neighborhoods in Ohio, and my parents were traditional Catholics. But in her… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
![“It’s [old age] not a surprise, we knew it was coming – make the most of it. So you may not be as fast on your feet, and the image in your mirror may be a little disappointing, but if you are still functioning and not in pain, gratitude should be the name of the game.” quote by Betty White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2b4/betty-white-2426_age_it-s-old-age-not-a-surprise-we-knew-it-w_1796120.jpg)
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