#old age

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

One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave. ↗

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

#brink #forgetting #getting old #grave #keeps

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

If we are strong, and have faith in life and its richness of surprises, and hold the rudder steadily in our hands. I am sure we will sail into quiet and pleasent waters for our old age. ↗

— Freya Stark

#am #faith #hands #hold #i

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

— Sinclair Lewis

#may #old #old age #orator #poet

He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled. ↗

— Gene Fowler

#bottled #especially #old #old age #profound

Old age is the supreme evil, for it deprives man of all pleasures while allowing his appetites to remain, and it brings with it every possible sorrow. Yet men fear death and desire old age. ↗

— Giacomo Leopardi

#allowing #appetites #brings #death #deprives

Old age is just a record of one's whole life. ↗

— Muhammad Ali

#just #life #old #old age #record

The price of indulging yourself in your youth in the things you cannot afford is poverty and dependence in your old age. ↗

— Dorothy Dix

#age #cannot #dependence #indulging #old

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

— Antiphanes

#ills #old #old age #refuge #sanctuary