Age Quote by Diane de Poitiers Download Open image “Old age appears hideous to us until we have to choose between it and death.” — Diane de Poitiers ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.0 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Age Death Hideous Old age
Sometimes [the expression] old age has a kind of harrowing beauty. But elderly - ugh! — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
When we're young, everyone over the age of thirty looks middle-aged, everyone over fifty antique. And time, as it goes by, confirms that we… — Julian Barnes 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
Old age is an ordeal, of flesh and mind. Of winding down, of slowing down, of dying cells. It's accepting the loss of physical… — Colleen McCullough Copy Share Image
I see old age not as something to hide from or dread (though there is much to oppose in the usual treatment of the… — Alix Kates Shulman Copy Share Image
I didn't fear old age. I was just becoming increasingly aware of the fact that the only people who said old age was beautiful… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
...it is so silly of people to fancy that old age means crookedness and witheredness and feebleness and sticks and spectacles and rheumatism and… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
Old age brings along with its uglinesses the comfort that you will soon be out of it, - which ought to be a substantial… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The years that a woman subtracts from her age are not lost. They are added to other women's. — Diane de Poitiers Copy Share Image
Men at any age truly never grow up. All, no matter what importance they may have attained, are still no more than little boys. — Diane de Poitiers Copy Share Image
It is only love that has already fallen sick that is killed by absence. — Diane de Poitiers Copy Share Image
Calumny is like counterfeit money; many people who would not coin it circulate it without qualms. — Diane de Poitiers Copy Share Image
We only make a dupe of the friend whose advice we ask, for we never tell him all; and it is usually what we… — Diane de Poitiers Copy Share Image
... see well how it often befalls that to rise to the topmost degree would make it seem that the abyss is on high. — Diane de Poitiers Copy Share Image
To have a good enemy, choose a friend; he knows where to strike. — Diane de Poitiers Copy Share Image
I need a bath." He chuckled. "You smell of smoke, as do I." The duke turned, leaning heavily on his cane. "Jameson, open the carriage door. We shall return to the house." Beth smiled up at Christian. "Shall we adjourn to the house to get some ointment for your hands and a bath, my love?" His eyes lit. "A bath?"… — Karen Hawkins Copy Share
It's easier to change a law than an age-old mentality. Deep down, many prejudices, many hostilities, many fears persist. But if we take a… — Dacia Maraini Copy Share Image
When I first started writing, when I was 15, I would go to work with people and they would tell me my lyrics were… — Sabrina Claudio Copy Share Image
Real people speak in my books about the main events of the age, such as the war, the Chernobyl disaster, and the downfall of… — Svetlana Alexievich Copy Share Image
As a child I was very involved with sports and I knew at age 9 that I wanted to be an Olympic champion. — Marion Jones Copy Share Image
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
By making conscious choices in our behavior and where we focus our attention, we can transform our experience of our body, decrease our biological… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
I am just enjoying the dream of being Milan coach at the age of 40. — Gennaro Gattuso Copy Share Image
Age is an accumulation of life and loss. Adulthood is a series of lines crossed. — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
I calculated that if I live up to the age of 80, then I end up using 450 toothbrushes in my life. All that… — Dia Mirza Copy Share Image
Why is wisdom so fair? Why is beauty so wise? Because all else is temporary, while beauty and wisdom are the only real and constant aspects of truth that can be perceived by human means. And I don't mean the kind of surface beauty that fades with age, or the sort of shallow wisdom that gets lost in platitudes. True… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share
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