There is a peculiar beauty about goodly old age – the beauty of holiness. Husband and wife who have fought the world side by side, who have made common stock of joy and sorrow, and become aged together, are not infrequently found curiously alike in personal appearance, in pitch and tone of voice, just as […]
Old Quotes
Crabbed youth and age cannot live together, age is full of laughter, youth is full of care.
Who wants to live to be a hundred? What’s the point of it? A short life and a merry one is far better than a long life sustained by fear, caution and perpetual medical surveillance.
I now begin the journey that will lead me into the sunset of my life. (In a statement to the American people revealing that he had Alzheimer’s disease.)
I promise to keep on living as though I expected to live forever. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up wrinkles the soul.
We are not limited by our old ages; we are liberate by it.
It is time for us old women to rip to shreds the veil of invisibility that has encased us. We have to fight the societal stereotype that keeps us on the periphery, outside the mainstream. We have experience to offer, judgment, wisdom, balance and charm.
You’re as old as you behave.
Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.
Some people try to turn back their odometers. Not me, I want people to know “why” I look this way. I’ve traveled a long way and some of the roads weren’t paved.
