Quotes of: Old-age Keyword

About the only thing that comes to us without effort is old age.

Gloria Pitzer

Hub: What do ya want me to do? Die of old age?

Secondhand Lions

Death is not an evil, because it frees us from all evils, and while it takes away good things, it takes away also the desire for them. Old age is the supreme evil, because it deprives us of all pleasures, leaving us only the appetite for them, and it...

Giacomo Leopardi

The old age old story of Yin & Yang...Every positive side has a negative side too. Which are you?

Hearts for Haiti: Book of Poetry & Inspiration

Nemo enim est tam senex qui se annum non putet posse vivere. (No one is so old as to think that he cannot live one more year.)

On Old Age, On Friendship & On Divination

Old age is not as honorable as death, but most people seek it.

Fall of Kings

To understand why dictators fall, it helps to recognise factors that produce a perfect anti-dictatorial storm. Barring missteps such as those that led to Gaddafi's undoing, a dictator's survival can be at risk because of newness in office, poor healt...

Bruce Bueno de Mesquita

I think my fans will follow me into our combined old age. Real musicians and real fans stay together for a long, long time.

Bonnie Raitt

I thought I'd live to a ripe old age, because I always felt there was a lot to do. I had a driven feeling. I always thought in the present.

Debbie Harry

We all wish to reach a ripe old age, but none of us are prepared to admit that we are already there.

Francisco de Quevedo

The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.

Isaac D'Israeli

Save your money. You're going to need twice as much money in your old age as you think.

Michael Caine

The themes that make one laugh always stem from poverty, hunger, misery, old age, sickness, and death. These are the themes that make Italians laugh, anyway.

Mario Monicelli

A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.

Miguel de Unamuno

There's no such thing as old age. I'm no different now than I was 50 years ago. I'm just having more fun.

Philip Johnson

I think repeating yourself is a sign of old age, telling the same joke again and again. Especially if they're jokes that don't make people laugh.

Simon Le Bon

Surviving cancer is cool, but surviving old age is cooler.

So many chairs, and no time to sit

Moderation is the key to old age and the doorway to boredom

Philosophical Uplifting Quotes and Poems

The only things that old age comes standard with: grey hair and wrinkles. Wisdom and intellect are earned.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age.

Aristotle

I thought, too, about time. How fleet it is, and how certain, and like death how indifferent to our commentary upon it. Once not long before we had been boys and girls, and soon we would be middle-aged, thickening with rueful pleasure toward the thin...

The Last Enchantments