Quotes of: Old-age Keyword

... the vintage of history is forever repeating ~ same old vines, same old wines!

Faust: My Soul Be Damned for the World Vol. 2

If I told you, you might be forced to lie about it. Not that you aren't really good at it, but why put an old man in that position?

The Great Escape

Holy fairy feathers, why does he have to be so handsome? Why couldn't a haggard old man have washed ashore?

Beauty and the Barbarian

Whether it's 18 years old or 40 years old, we think we know what's going on. But if you're lucky enough to continue the journey, its amazing how we keep learning how much we didn't know.

Joe Namath

Quite a lot of our contemporary culture is actually shot through with a resentment of limits and the passage of time, anger at what we can't do, fear or even disgust at growing old.

Rowan Williams

Eldora smiled up at Paulo cunningly, her dark eyes twinkling. “You are old, Father.” “Not as old as I shall be, before I have finished with the universe.

Aizai the Forgotten

Don't go to eighth grade...don't talk about something old...don't bring up old memories that have nothing to do with who we are now. THIS is all that matters! TODAY.

The Inner Circle

Surely arrested development consists not in refusing to lose old things but in failing to add new things.

On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature

All have some artificial badge which the world, and themselves among the first, learn to consider as a genuine characteristic.

Mosses from an Old Manse

The eight-year-old beat your best cadet in hand-to-hand combat?” “So did the six-year-old girl, ma’am. Actually, she beat the instructor also.

Max

If you don’t know how to grow old, don’t start learning how to grow old.

The Legacy Letters: His Wife, His Children, His Final Gift

I grow old … I grow old … I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and Other Poems

Better to have a messy home and happy children than a perfect yard and unhappy children

The Little Old Lady Who Broke All the Rules

Now everything is sold on the Internet and anybody at all who doesn't know a thing can give their opinion.

The Little Old Lady Who Broke All the Rules

There's a lot that is awful. That's the struggle of getting old. To make sure you don't let what's hard...obscure the beauty.

The Lucy Variations

In a town in Calabria, a long time ago, there lived an old lady everyone called Strega Nona, which meant "Grandma Witch".

Strega Nona

Cause hearts are amazing things. They get lots bigger to make room for new people to love alongside the old people you love. -Simi

Styxx

Words themselves are neutral. It's the charge we add to them that matters

Taking the Leap: Freeing Ourselves from Old Habits and Fears

I shouldn’t have gone out so far, fish,” he said. “Neither for you nor for me. I’m sorry, fish.

The Old Man and the Sea

She looks like a very young old person, or a very old young person; but then, she's looked that way ever since she was two.

The Robber Bride

If the map doesn't agree with the ground the map is wrong

Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart: Thirty True Things You Need to Know Now