#old age

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

— Hosea Ballou

#fifty #forty #old #old age #youth

Old age is, so to speak, the sanctuary of ills: they all take refuge in it. ↗

— Antiphanes

#ills #old #old age #refuge #sanctuary

To be old is to be part of a huge and ordinary multitude... the reason why old age was venerated in the past was because it was extraordinary. ↗

— Ronald Blythe

#because #extraordinary #huge #in the past #multitude

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

— Mason Cooley

#asleep #during #fall #friends #funerals

The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death. ↗

— Desiderius Erasmus

#age #approach #aware #childhood #children

I think God just died of old age. And, when I realized that he wasn't any more, it didn't shock me. It seemed natural and right! ↗

— Frances Farmer

#any #died #god #i #i think

We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

#absorb #awful #grave #hands #lean

Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#age #behind #done #left #matter

Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator. ↗

— Confucius

#believe #comfortable #front #gently #given

Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair. ↗

— Ira Gershwin

#adds #contempt #due #hair #inspired