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.
Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent.
Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age.
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.
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.
[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 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...
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...
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...
Your youth is certainly finished and old age has definitely arrived if you feel that you are losing enthusiasm, excitement and energy towards your dreams and goals.
You cannot afford to gamble your youth only for fun.
You can not have empty or neutral mind, as long as you work the mind will contain dreams, if you stop working it will contain regrets.
When we age we shed many skins: ego, arrognace, dominance, self-opionated, unreliable, pessimism, rudeness, selfish, uncaring ... Wow, it's good to be old!
It always a blessing to learn the wisdom from elderly people.
Young people must appreciate the beauty of old age. The old people were once young.
Some social ills are preserved by the common misbelief that things such as ignorance, greed, and stupidity do not have the stamina required to reach old age.
Hardest of all, as one becomes older, is to accept that sapient remarks can be drawn from the most unwelcome or seemingly improbable sources, and that the apparently more trustworthy sources can lead...
I'm past competing in pissing contests. My jet stream is now more of a trickle. The only contest I'd win is the number of trips to the bathroom it takes to purge a 32oz soda.