#old age

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

Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a minimum. ↗

— Thomas Szasz

#age #aim #apparent #between #childhood

Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age. ↗

— Sinclair Lewis

#may #old #old age #orator #poet

Old age isn't a battle; old age is a massacre. ↗

— Philip Roth

#battle #massacre #old #old age

In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long. ↗

— Pope Paul VI

#day #days #long #old #old age

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

— Antiphanes

#ills #old #old age #refuge #sanctuary

When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#allowed #dulling #excellence #goodbye #human

I was already devouring literature and I was the ripe old age of 15 when I decided to be an actor. I just thought plays were the most fantastic way of expressing life. I thought I'd discovered Shakespeare - 'hey, there's a new guy in town, don't know if anyone's read him.' I was just excited about the whole thing, from day one. ↗

— Chiwetel Ejiofor

#actor #age #already #anyone #day

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

— Mason Cooley

#asleep #during #fall #friends #funerals