Old age Quote by Giacomo Casanova Download Open image ““youth runs away from old age, because it is its most cruel enemy”” — Giacomo Casanova ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Old age Youth
“So it is not age that is threatened by youth, but the other way around. Youth is threatened by age.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Youth is a kind of madness. The wisest young men are they who follow the good example of the old, and the most foolish… — John Wortabet Copy Share Image
“Youth is feeling seventy years old, misanthropic, and ready to die at fifteen” — Nikolai Grozni Copy Share Image
“The fragile nature of youth is at last hardened by the agony of experience.” — Joel T. McGrath Copy Share Image
“Youth offends by its very nature and Elders offend because they forget what it is like to be young.” — J.D. Lakey Copy Share Image
“Youth is a marvelous garment. How misplaced is the sympathy lavished on adolescents. There is a yet more difficult age which comes later, when one has less to hope for and less ability to change, when one has cast the die and has to settle into a chosen life without the consolations of habit or the wisdom of maturity, when,… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share
If you have not done things worthy of being written about, at least write things worthy of being read. — Giacomo Casanova Copy Share Image
I have often met with happiness after some imprudent step which ought to have brought ruin upon me, and although passing a vote of… — Giacomo Casanova Copy Share Image
Thence, I suppose, my natural disposition to make fresh acquaintances, and to break with them so readily, although always for a good reason, and… — Giacomo Casanova Copy Share Image
“faith must believe without discussion, and the stronger it is, the more it keeps silent.” — Giacomo Casanova Copy Share Image
“Oh, cruel ennui! It must be by mistake that those who have invented the torments of hell have forgotten to ascribe thee the first… — Giacomo Casanova Copy Share Image
Heart and head are the constituent parts of character; temperament has almost nothing to do with it, and, therefore, character is dependent upon education,… — Giacomo Casanova Copy Share Image
Man is free; yet we must not suppose that he is at liberty to do everything he pleases, for he becomes a slave the… — Giacomo Casanova Copy Share Image
Real love is the love that sometimes arises after sensual pleasure: if it does, it is immortal; the other kind inevitably goes stale, for… — Giacomo Casanova Copy Share Image
The spirit of rebellion is present in every great city, and the great task of wise government is to keep it dormant, for if… — Giacomo Casanova Copy Share Image
“So Mack got kind of a late start in the startup world—he founded TakeOff at the ripe old age of twenty-five” — Doree Shafrir Copy Share Image
“Fear of seeing a police car pull into the drive. Fear of falling asleep at night. Fear of not falling asleep. Fear of the past rising up. Fear of the present taking flight. Fear of the telephone that rings in the dead of night. Fear of electrical storms. Fear of the cleaning woman who has a spot on her cheek!… — Raymond Carver Copy Share
“Exactly. I think the original tantric Buddhists took notice of was some very wise old people who never studied in their youth, but took part in a range of risk-taking adventures when they were younger, and finally became wise when they reflected upon their lives in old age. There is only one problem.” “Which is?” “Risk-taking is a way to… — Joe Niemczura Copy Share
“Prayer of an Anonymous Abbess: Lord, thou knowest better than myself that I am growing older and will soon be old. Keep me from becoming too talkative, and especially from the unfortunate habit of thinking that I must say something on every subject and at every opportunity. Release me from the idea that I must straighten out other peoples' affairs.… — Anonymous Copy Share
Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength faileth. — Bible Copy Share Image
“Give someone more time and they'll appear to have done more with it.” — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
Relish love in your old age! Aged love is like aged wine; it becomes more satisfying, more refreshing, more valuable, more appreciated and more… — Leo Buscaglia Copy Share Image
In old age our bodies are worn-out instruments, on which the soul tries in vain to play the melodies of youth. But because the… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“I’m determined to be a big spender in my old age. I want to empty my savings account before I no longer know what… — Hendrik Groen Copy Share Image
People do not realize that Alzheimer's is not old age. It is a progressive and fatal disease, and staggering amounts of people develop Alzheimer's… — Melina Kanakaredes Copy Share Image