VIRTUAL DICTIONARY - FAMOUS QUOTES

Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forewards. -Soren Kierkegaard.

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

All diseases run into one, old age.

Women are not forgiven for aging. Robert Redford's lines of distinction are my old-age wrinkles.

The spiritual eyesight improves as the physical eyesight declines. -Plato.

Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance. -Shakespeare.

At 20 years of age the will reigns; at 30 the wit; at 40 the judgment.

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do. -Andrew Carnegie.