#old age

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 has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#add #deformities #deformity #enough #never

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#else #everything #got #like #make

When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality. ↗

— Muriel Spark

#days #decline #first #immortality #life

Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a minimum. ↗

— Thomas Szasz

#age #aim #apparent #between #childhood

Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age. ↗

— Sinclair Lewis

#may #old #old age #orator #poet

I've gotten crankier in my old age. ↗

— Shirley MacLaine

#gotten #i #old #old age

To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am. ↗

— Bernard Baruch

#always #am #fifteen #i #i am

A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world. ↗

— Maurice Chevalier

#better #better world #bringing #comfortable #decay

There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age. ↗

— Bill Bryson

#farmer #kill #lightning #old #old age