A.S. Byatt Quote

Education is the best provision for old age.

Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.

How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

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

Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent.

Death would not surprise us as often as it does, if we let go of the misbelief that newborns are less mortal than the elderly.

[O]ver the years I travelled to another universe. However alert we are, however much we think we know what will happen, antiquity remains an unknown, unanticipated galaxy. It is alien, and old people...

With regard to things such as independence, mental capabilities, and sexuality, a very old man is nothing but a gigantic infant with white hair and wrinkles.

With great abilities come great responsibilities; great power comes with great assignments.With great age comes great reasoning; great actions come great experience.With great battles come great victo...

Prayer of an Anonymous Abbess:Lord, thou knowest better than myself that I am growing older and will soon be old. Keep me from becoming too talkative, and especially from the unfortunate habit of thin...