Muriel Spark 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.

A beautiful woman should always have at the back of her mind that her ravishing appearance is only an ephemeral quality. When she wakes up in the morning, looks into the mirror, and notices that somet...

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...

[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...