Old Age Quotes
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Old age is not a total misery. Experience helps.
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The gods bestowed on Max the gift of perpetual old age.
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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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In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.
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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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Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age.
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Nobody loves the light like the blind man.
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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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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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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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What one has wished for in youth, in old age one has in abundance.
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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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No lie ever reaches old age.
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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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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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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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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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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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See all the women seated, youth in their face lifts, old age in their hands.
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Old age is the harbor of all ills.
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Rich women need not fear old age; their gold can always create about them any feelings necessary to their happiness.
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Old age hath yet his honour and his toil.
