Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
Old age is the supreme evil, for it deprives man of all pleasures while allowing his appetites to remain, and it brings with it every possible sorrow. Yet men fear death and desire old age.
A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.
A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.
One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going.
The present times require the vigor and the activity of the prime of life; but I feel the increasing infirmities of age to such a degree, that I am conscious I cannot serve you to advantage.
Old age isn't a battle; old age is a massacre.
Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.
There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.
Old age is the verdict of life.