Quotes of: Old-age Keyword

Most women are indulgent of themselves. This is a mistake. It should be only the reward of old age.

Anna Held

Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.

Aristotle

In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.

Beverly Sills

Old age and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance.

David Mamet

Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

Emily Dickinson

There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

Fay Weldon

Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age.

George Sand

The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.

George Santayana

Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.

A. J. P. Taylor

The theme of old age doesn't seem to fascinate Hollywood.

John Updike

Old age treats freelance writers pretty gently.

John Updike

Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.

Lydia M. Child

Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Old age is not a disease - it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.

Maggie Kuhn

A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.

Pindar

Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.

Maurice Chevalier

In this respect early youth is exactly like old age; it is a time of waiting for a big trip to an unknown destination. The chief difference is that youth waits for the morning limited and age waits for the night train.

Bruce Catton

We've put more effort into helping folks reach old age than into helping them enjoy it.

Frank A. Clark

Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.

Geoffrey Chaucer

A man's character never changes radically from youth to old age. What happens is that circumstances bring out characteristics which have not been obvious to the superficial observer.

Hesketh Pearson