#old age

Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age. ↗

— Hesiod

#age #cause #comes #deadly #does

Nevertheless, whether in occurrences lasting days, hours or mere minutes at a time, I have experienced happiness often, and have had brief encounters with it in my later years, even in old age. ↗

— Herman Hesse

#brief #days #encounters #even #experienced

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#fifty #forty #old #old age #youth

When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#adorable #dawn #grace #happy #joined

Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years. ↗

— Ausonius

#brings #count #happiness #know #let us

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#always #am #i #i am #man

We've put more effort into helping folks reach old age than into helping them enjoy it. ↗

— Frank A. Clark

#effort #enjoy #folks #helping #into

Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#belongs #old #old age #prudence #rashness

Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier years. ↗

— Charlotte Bronte

#age #callous #comparatively #earlier #easily

I've been screaming at the top of my lungs at my family, 'Work out! Work out! Old age is coming!' ↗

— Cher

#been #coming #family #i #lungs