#old age

Pretend to be dumb, that's the only way to reach old age. ↗

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

#dumb #old #old age #only #pretend

Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked. ↗

— Lawrence Durrell

#being #insult #like #old #old age

Old age is a shipwreck. ↗

— Charles de Gaulle

#old #old age #shipwreck

Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age. ↗

— Walter Savage Landor

#age #bane #childhood #indulgence #oil

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 is a woman's hell. ↗

— Ninon de L'Enclos

#hell #old #old age #woman

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 is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death. ↗

— Herman Melville

#always #aught #death #less #life

In my old age I've come to find that if you respect other people, you feel better about yourself. ↗

— Bijou Phillips

#age #better #come #feel #find

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age. ↗

— Thomas Bailey Aldrich

#cheerful #heart #hopeful #keep #kindly