#old age

Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age. ↗

— Aristotle

#bashfulness #old #old age #ornament #reproach

One good reason for writing novels based on your life is that you have something to read in old age when you've forgotten what happened. ↗

— Nina Bawden

#based #forgotten #good #good reason #happened

In America, people rarely stay in the town where they grew up, rarely stay in close proximity to their parents throughout their lives. You rarely find parents in their old age being taken care of by their children. ↗

— Robert Benton

#america #being #care #children #close

I think repeating yourself is a sign of old age, telling the same joke again and again. Especially if they're jokes that don't make people laugh. ↗

— Simon Le Bon

#age #especially #i #i think #joke

A woman tells her doctor, 'I've got a bad back.' The doctor says, 'It's old age.' The woman says, 'I want a second opinion.' The doctor says: 'Okay - you're ugly as well.' ↗

— Tommy Cooper

#back #bad #bad back #doctor #got

The crucial task of old age is balance: keeping just well enough, just brave enough, just gay and interested and starkly honest enough to remain a sentient human being. ↗

— Florida Scott-Maxwell

#balance #being #brave #crucial #enough

Education is the best provision for old age. ↗

— Aristotle

#best #education #old #old age #provision

In my cranky old age, I actually prefer recording alone now, on 'The Simpsons,' for example, because I find that the director can just focus on what I'm doing and I can do a lot of variations. A lot of times, when I record with a group, I'll stay after class for another hour or two. ↗

— Hank Azaria

#after #age #alone #another #because

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

Old age: I fall asleep during the funerals of my friends. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#asleep #during #fall #friends #funerals