#old age

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

A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice; a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

#age #bad #beauty #even #everything

To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am. ↗

— Bernard Baruch

#always #am #fifteen #i #i am

A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world. ↗

— Maurice Chevalier

#better #better world #bringing #comfortable #decay

Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought. ↗

— Emily Dickinson

#comes #gradually #old #old age #suddenly

I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I'm not old yet! ↗

— Tina Turner

#become #give #i #never #never give in

Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death. ↗

— Edith Wharton

#breadth #broad #calm #death #delicious

But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave. ↗