Old Age Quotes
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The gods bestowed on Max the gift of perpetual old age.
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Old age is not a total misery. Experience helps.
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We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.
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Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you'd never complete your life, would you? You'd never wholly know you.
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It's one of the terrors of old age that your body is not your friend. Or to be out on the street and be frightened of someone because you're not in good shape and can't do anything about it.
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When grace combines with wrinkles, it is admirable. There is an indescribable light of dawn about intensely happy old age. . . . The young person is handsome, but the old, superb.
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In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.
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In old age, she thought, how it all falls away. Your good opinion of yourself, all the virtues you had thought you had, your beauty, your wealth.
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Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age.
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Sign of old age: distress at all leave-takings, all separations. And the sadness of memories, because I'm aware they're condemned to death.
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Nobody loves the light like the blind man.
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Put cotton in your ears and pebbles in your shoes. Pull on rubber gloves. Smear Vaseline over your glasses, and there you have it: instant old age.
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She looked much younger than her age, indeed, which is almost always the case with women who retain serenity of spirit, sensitiveness and pure sincere warmth of heart to old age.
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Even under a harsh God-and I do not believe in a harsh God-one is entitled to serenity in old age.
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What one has wished for in youth, in old age one has in abundance.
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You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.
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No lie ever reaches old age.
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By not dealing with past human rights violations, we are not simply protecting the perpetrators' trivial old age ; we are thereby ripping the foundations of justice from beneath new generations.
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Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.
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Old age was growing inside me. It kept catching my eye from the depths of the mirror. I was paralyzed sometimes as I saw it making its way toward me so steadily when nothing inside me was ready for it.
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Old age hath yet his honour and his toil.
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Old age is the harbor of all ills.
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Good work and joyous play go hand in hand. When play stops, old age begins. Play keeps you from taking life too seriously.
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Artists of all sorts remain youthful for so long, and in many cases attain a grand old age. The explanation is that they live in an almost permanent condition of stimulation and excitement.
