#old

The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#american society #aristocratic #breaking #colours #covered

It`s not how old you are, it`s how you are old. ↗

— Jules Renard

#inspirational #living #old-age #age

I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#inifinity #life #old-age #age

33 old people went into a nursing home, and only 34 people came out alive. One old woman died while giving birth to twins. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#age #birth #bizarre #child #children

And then I laugh, because it's so ridiculous and so gorgeous and it's all I an do to not melt into a fit of giggles. So what if I'm ninety-three? So what if I'm ancient and cranky and my body's a wreck? If they're willing to accept me and my guilty conscience, why the hell shouldn't I run away with the circus? It's like Charlie told the cop. For this old man, this IS home. ↗

— Sara Gruen

#home #old-age #sara-gruen #water-for-elephants #age

That's the trouble with you young people. You think because you ain't been here long, you know everything. In my life I already forgot more than you ever know. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#youth #age

Soldiers and peasants lived together on friendly terms; they knew each other and their everyday routines, and trusted each other; they shook their heads together over the war. ↗

— Ernst Toller

#everyday #friendly #heads #knew #lived

Youthfulness is about how you live not when you were born. ↗

— Karl Lagerfeld

#born #fashion-designer #life #lifestyle #live

Grow old with me! The best is yet to be. ↗

— Robert Browning

#grow #me #old #yet

The truth is I'm getting old, I said. We already are old, she said with a sigh. What happens is that you don't feel it on the inside, but from the outside everybody can see it. ↗

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

#age