Quotes of: Old-age Keyword

At the age of 18 all young poets are sure they will be dead at 21 - of old age.

Marguerite Young

Maybe I'll be a feminist in my old age.

Bjork

Young people must appreciate the beauty of old age. The old people were once young.

Lailah Gifty Akita

It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.

Simone de Beauvoir

The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you're learning you're not old.

Rosalyn S. Yalow

Old age is no place for sissies.

Bette Davis

Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.

Margaret Mead

How young can you die of old age?

Steven Wright

It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

That morning, he was afraid of becoming old, and it was a very specific kind of old age he feared, one which had nothing to do with the number of years since your birth. He feared the premature old age of missed opportunities.

At Night We Walk in Circles

Education is the best provision for old age.

Aristotle

Old age is a shipwreck.

Charles de Gaulle

All diseases run into one, old age.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Old age ain't no place for sissies.

Bette Davis

Old age is the supreme evil, for it deprives man of all pleasures while allowing his appetites to remain, and it brings with it every possible sorrow. Yet men fear death and desire old age.

Giacomo Leopardi

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

Francis Bacon

Old age is, so to speak, the sanctuary of ills: they all take refuge in it.

Antiphanes

It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Charles Spurgeon

The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.

Marcus Tullius Cicero