#old age

I've been very lucky and I have a happy old age with good family and friends still around. ↗

— Maeve Binchy

#around #been #family #friends #good

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight. ↗

— Robertson Davies

#age #book #building #fine #great

When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#allowed #dulling #excellence #goodbye #human

To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love. ↗

— Alan Bleasdale

#body #combine #exercise #heart #keep

My mother enjoyed old age, and because of her I've begun to enjoy parts of it too. So far I've had it good and am crumbling nicely. ↗

— Lionel Blue

#am #because #begun #crumbling #enjoy

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

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

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

Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age. ↗

— Lactantius

#age #controls #delights #memory #old

If we are strong, and have faith in life and its richness of surprises, and hold the rudder steadily in our hands. I am sure we will sail into quiet and pleasent waters for our old age. ↗

— Freya Stark

#am #faith #hands #hold #i