#old age

A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice; a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

#age #bad #beauty #even #everything

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

— Bernard Baruch

#always #am #fifteen #i #i am

Old age isn't a battle; old age is a massacre. ↗

— Philip Roth

#battle #massacre #old #old age

In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long. ↗

— Pope Paul VI

#day #days #long #old #old age

Old age is no place for sissies. ↗

— Bette Davis

#old #old age #place #sissies

I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I'm not old yet! ↗

— Tina Turner

#become #give #i #never #never give in

You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned. ↗

— Judith Viorst

#children #deserve #earned #end #face

Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death. ↗

— Edith Wharton

#breadth #broad #calm #death #delicious

Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#age #along #drag #error #into

Old age is fifteen years older than I am. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#am #fifteen #i #i am #old