#old age

Old age is a shipwreck. ↗

— Charles de Gaulle

#old #old age #shipwreck

The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long. ↗

— A. J. P. Taylor

#age #fear #go #greatest #greatest problem

How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#great #how #ills #incessant #old

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

Women would be disproportionately affected by the privatization of social security. It is one of the most important safety nets for American women in old age, or in times of disability, to insure financial income for their families. ↗

— Barbara Mikulski

#age #american #american women #disability #disproportionately

What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease. ↗

— Jean Paul

#cease #hopes #joys #makes #old

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

While I had often said that I wanted to die in bed, what I really meant was that in my old age I wanted to be stepped on by an elephant while making love. ↗

— Roger Zelazny

#bed #die #elephant #had #i

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