old-age

Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age.

One of the first steps to successful leadership is to forget your age and remember your dream.

One of the first steps to successful leadership is to always forget your age and remember your dream regularly.

was coming to that troubled twilight time, a time of regrets that resemble hopes, of hopes that resemble regrets, when youth is past but old age has not yet come.

Keep the enthusiasm of your youth and treasure the wisdom of old age.

Our lives can't be measured by our final years, of this I am sure.

They rarely look at Baba -- the teenagers -- and then only with cold indifference, or even subtle disdain, as if my father should have known better than to allow old age and decay to happen to him.

Moderation is the key to old age and the doorway to boredom

I'll be happy if running and I can grow old together.

I look into my glass,And view my wasting skin,And say, 'Would God it came to passMy heart had shrunk as thin!

One Must Always Remember That Birth, Old Age, Disease And Death Comes At Any Moment In Regardless Of Whom We Are Or What We Have In Forms Of Material Possession.

Give someone more time and they'll appear to have done more with it.

A man of forty-five can consider himself still young till the moment comes when he realises that he has children old enough to fall in love.

Old age doth in sharp pains abound;We are belabored by the gout,Our blindness is a dark profound,Our deafness each one laughs about.Then reason's light with falling rayDoth but a trembling flicker cast.Honor to age, ye children pay!Alas! my fifty years are past!

No matter who you were in sixteenth-century Europe, you could be sure of two things: you would be lucky to reach fifty years of age, and you could expect a life of discomfort and pain. Old age tires the body by thirty-five, Erasmus lamented, but half the population did not live beyond the age of twenty. There were doctors and there was medicine, but there does not seem to have been a great deal of healing. Anyone who could afford to seek a doctor's aid did so eagerly, but the doctor was as likely to maim or kill as to cure. His potions were usually noxious and sometimes fatal__ut they could not have been as terrible and traumatic as the contemporary surgical methods. The surgeon and the Inquisitor differed only in their motivation: otherwise, their batteries of knives, saws, and tongs for slicing, piercing, burning, and amputating were barely distinguishable. Without any anesthetic other than strong liquor, an operation was as bad as the torments of hell.

Older age has taught one crucial lesson about life. It has taught me that regardless of where I've been I still have much to see and despite every fall I still haven't experienced it all.

Left alone, Miss Verney felt so old, lonely and helpless that she began to cry. No builder would tackle that shed, not for any price she could afford. But crying relieved her and she soon felt quite cheerful again. It was ridiculous to brood, she told herself.

Now, it__ time for me to lock up and go. Listen to me. Lock up an empty building that__ gonna be torn down. Makes no sense. Like an old man tellin_ a lie to his son from his death bed. What__ the point? Who besides yourself are you fooling?