#old age

I don't tap dance, and I don't think you can learn to tap dance in three weeks at my ripe old age. ↗

— Huey Lewis

#dance #i #learn #old #old age

Old age and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance. ↗

— David Mamet

#always #beat #exuberance #old #old age

Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#different #less #old #old age #pleasures

What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#bear #burden #faculties #failing #hard

Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#because #long #old #old age #ready

It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age. ↗

— Margaret Mead

#arbitrary #childhood #cruelly #false #into

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

Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week. ↗

— Louis Kronenberger

#every #excellent #goal #least #old

Either God is alive, in which case he'll deal with us as he sees fit. Or he is dead, in which case he was never alive, it being unlikely that he died of old age. ↗

— John Ralston Saul

#alive #being #case #dead #deal

The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified. ↗

— Bob Wells

#body #bone #form #man #meet