#old age

There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow. ↗

— Fay Weldon

#old #old age #only #sorrow #such

Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife; This simple boon I beg of Fate - A thousand years of Middle Life. ↗

— Carolyn Wells

#beg #boon #fate #fears #i

Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself - a lad of about 19. ↗

— E. B. White

#about #age #because #been #i

Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age. ↗

— Lactantius

#age #controls #delights #memory #old

Old age has got to start creeping up on me one day soon, and frankly I'm very scared. I don't want to be old. I've always felt so young. And I want to stay that way. ↗

— David Niven

#always #creeping #day #felt #frankly

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#add #deformities #deformity #enough #never

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#else #everything #got #like #make

A hundred things are done today in the divine name of Youth, that if they showed their true colors would be seen by rights to belong rather to old age. ↗

— Wyndham Lewis

#belong #colors #divine #done #hundred

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do. ↗

— Golda Meir

#aboard #flying #like #nothing #old

Many believe - and I believe - that I have been designated for this work by God. In spite of my old age, I do not want to give it up; I work out of love for God and I put all my hope in Him. ↗

— Michelangelo

#been #believe #designated #give #god