#old age

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

— Dorothy Canfield Fisher

#deeply #die #grow #love #may

Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator. ↗

— Confucius

#believe #comfortable #front #gently #given

I have always paid income tax. I object only when it reaches a stage when I am threatened with having nothing left for my old age - which is due to start next Tuesday or Wednesday. ↗

— Noel Coward

#always #am #due #having #i

Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair. ↗

— Ira Gershwin

#adds #contempt #due #hair #inspired

To be perfectly honest, I think that as I'm growing older, I'm just growing more impatient. I'll be very happy if at some point people say, 'Michael's grown wiser and softer in his old age.' But we'll have to wait and see what my next project is. ↗

— Michael Haneke

#growing #grown #happy #his #honest

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man. ↗

— James Thurber

#happen #man #most #old #old age

No sociologist should think himself too good, even in his old age, to make tens of thousands of quite trivial computations in his head and perhaps for months at a time. ↗

— Max Weber

#computations #even #good #head #himself

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

— Fay Weldon

#old #old age #only #sorrow #such

Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife; This simple boon I beg of Fate - A thousand years of Middle Life. ↗

— Carolyn Wells

#beg #boon #fate #fears #i

Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself - a lad of about 19. ↗

— E. B. White

#about #age #because #been #i