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old age

«I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.»
«I want to grow old without facelifts... I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I've made. Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you'd never complete your life, would you? You'd never wholly know you»
«I wouldn't mind dying in a plane crash. It'd be a good way to go. I don't want to die in my sleep, or of old age, or OD...I want to feel what it's like. I want to taste it, hear it, smell it. Death is only going to happen to you once; I don't want to miss it.»
«Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age; and if you understand that old age has wisdom for its food, you will so conduct yourself in youth that your old age will not lack for nourishment.»
«Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.»
«In our daily lives problems are bound to arise. The biggest problems in our lives are the ones that we inevitably have to face, like old age, illness, and death. Trying to avoid our problems or simply not thinking about them may provide temporary rel»
«Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.»
«Old age ain't no place for sissies.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken (Critic, Journalist) | About: Age | Keywords: old age, sissies, sissy
«It is a man's own fault, it is from want of use, if his mind grow torpid in old age»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | Keywords: fault, old age, torpid
«In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.»