#old age

Women would be disproportionately affected by the privatization of social security. It is one of the most important safety nets for American women in old age, or in times of disability, to insure financial income for their families. ↗

— Barbara Mikulski

#age #american #american women #disability #disproportionately

Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement. ↗

— Dwight L. Moody

#become #begin #empty #filled #later

Those who have no hope pass their old age shrouded with an inward gloom. ↗

— Wilfred Owen

#gloom #hope #inward #old #old age

A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality. ↗

— Pindar

#childhood #graceful #honorable #immortality #old

I have the problems of, I must confess, old age. ↗

— Billy Graham

#confess #i #must #old #old age

Besides, wouldn't it be wonderful if no one ever had to worry about the random cruelty of fatal illness or the woes of old age attacking them or their loved ones? ↗

— Joan D. Vinge

#age #attacking #besides #cruelty #ever

While I had often said that I wanted to die in bed, what I really meant was that in my old age I wanted to be stepped on by an elephant while making love. ↗

— Roger Zelazny

#bed #die #elephant #had #i

Why do people talk of the horrors of old age? It's great. I feel like a fine old car with the parts gradually wearing out, but I'm not complaining,... Those who find growing old terrible are people who haven't done what they wanted with their lives. ↗

— Martha Gellhorn

#car #complaining #done #feel #find

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

Old age is a woman's hell. ↗

— Ninon de L'Enclos

#hell #old #old age #woman