#old age

In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order. ↗

— Will Durant

#discovery #freedom #great #great discovery #i

To be old is to be part of a huge and ordinary multitude... the reason why old age was venerated in the past was because it was extraordinary. ↗

— Ronald Blythe

#because #extraordinary #huge #in the past #multitude

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

— Miguel de Unamuno

#age #being #being a man #die #dies

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

— Michael Caine

#going #money #much #need #old

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 realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate. ↗

— Soren Kierkegaard

#asylum #built #dean #dreams #himself

Those who are born of parents broken with old age, or of such as are not yet ripe or are too young, or of drunkards, soft or effeminate men, want a great and liberal ingenuity or wit. ↗

— Thomas Willis

#born #broken #drunkards #effeminate #great

Besides, wouldn't it be wonderful if no one ever had to worry about the random cruelty of fatal illness or the woes of old age attacking them or their loved ones? ↗

— Joan D. Vinge

#age #attacking #besides #cruelty #ever

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

— Maggie Kuhn

#disappointments #disease #illnesses #kinds #old

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

— George Santayana

#grafted #green #inveterate #most #old