Zitat des Tages über Hohes Alter / Old Age:
The public has lost faith in the ability of Social Security and Medicare to provide for old age. They've lost faith in the banking system and in conventional medical insurance.
I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
In this respect early youth is exactly like old age; it is a time of waiting for a big trip to an unknown destination. The chief difference is that youth waits for the morning limited and age waits for the night train.
Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.
While I had often said that I wanted to die in bed, what I really meant was that in my old age I wanted to be stepped on by an elephant while making love.
Besides, wouldn't it be wonderful if no one ever had to worry about the random cruelty of fatal illness or the woes of old age attacking them or their loved ones?
A newspaper is lumber made malleable. It is ink made into words and pictures. It is conceived, born, grows up and dies of old age in a day.
Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.
A woman tells her doctor, 'I've got a bad back.' The doctor says, 'It's old age.' The woman says, 'I want a second opinion.' The doctor says: 'Okay - you're ugly as well.'
Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.
Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age.
Old age is not a disease - it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.
Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.
To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.
Where nothing in a person's earlier years lends itself to an old age devoted to continuing intellectual and physical pursuits, a late-life interest in Tolstoy or even crossword puzzles is unlikely to appear, no matter the urging by well-intentioned social workers or people like me who write books about it.
Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.
Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
Our old age was in some respects the happiest period of life.
There has been enough suffering in our country, there has been enough of children whose dreams die before they have a chance to grow and there has been enough of our elders who, having served their nation, are forced into indignity in their old age.
Somehow, when you think about yourself in old age, you think you're going to be this completely different person that you don't even recognize - because you can't imagine it, you know?
One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up.
Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.
One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
Education is the best provision for old age.
It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.
To be is to do.
I grew up in one of the most socially conservative neighborhoods in Ohio, and my parents were traditional Catholics. But in her old age, my mother got her home health care from a guy who was gay, who was wonderful to her. Before she died, she rode a float in the Cincinnati Gay Pride Parade.
I began auditioning for acting jobs at the ripe old age of 12. Thirty years later, including a 15-year run on television, I sometimes just get offers for work. Often, however, I am still required to run pell-mell around Los Angeles or New York, interviewing for film and TV jobs.
Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age.
Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures.
Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.
In my old age I've come to find that if you respect other people, you feel better about yourself.
He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled.
