“Learning maketh young men temperate, is the comfort of old age, standing for wealth with poverty, and serving as an ornament to riches.” MenAgeYoungWealthPovertyLearningComfortStandingRichesOld AgeYoung ManServingOrnaments Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Gangsters live for the action. The closer to death, the nearer to the heated coil of the moment, the more alive they feel. Most would rather succumb to a barrage of bullets from a roomful of sworn enemies than to the debilitation of old age, dying the death of the feeble. A gangster becomes as addicted to the thrill of the battle and the potential to die in the midst of it as he does to he more attractive lures in his path. In his world, the potential for death exists every day. The better gangsters don't shy away from such a dreaded possibility but rather find comfort in its proximity.” WorldFeelsDoeMomentsAgeActionDiesEnemyPathAliveDyingPossibilityComfortBattleOld AgeAttractiveShyMidstBulletsThrillGangstersLureProximity Book:Gangster Source: Gangster
“And now I'm old and going--I'm sure I can't tell where; One comfort is, this world's so hard, I can't be worse off there” WorldI CanHardAgeThis WorldComfortOld Age Book:Andromeda: And Other Poems Source: Andromeda: And Other Poems
“Education is the food of youth, the delight of old age, the ornament of prosperity, the refuge and comfort of adversity, and the provocation to grace in the soul.” SoulAgeGraceYouthComfortAdversityProsperityDelightOld AgeRefugeOrnamentsProvocation Author:Saint Augustine
“He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.” ShouldYearsMayAgeRememberYoungTimeHonorComfortOne DayAgingOld AgeRemember When Author:Joseph Addison
“Therefore was I created with a stubborn outside, with an aspect of iron, that when I come to woo ladies, I fright them. But, in faith, Kate, the elder I wax, the better I shall appear. My comfort is that old age, that ill layer-up of beauty, can do no more spoil upon my face. Thou hast me, if thou hast me, at the worst, and thou shalt wear me, if thou wear me, better and better.” IfsAgeFacesCan DoWorstComfortAspectIllOld AgeIronLayersStubbornEldersSpoilKateFright Book:Arden Shakespeare Complete Works Source: Arden Shakespeare Complete Works
“The best Armour of Old Age is a well spent life preceding it; a Life employed in the Pursuit of useful Knowledge, in honourable Actions and the Practice of Virtue; in which he who labours to improve himself from his Youth, will in Age reap the happiest Fruits of them; not only because these never leave a Man, not even in the extremest Old Age; but because a Conscience bearing Witness that our Life was well-spent, together with the Remembrance of past good Actions, yields an unspeakable Comfort to the Soul” MenWellsSoulAgeActionTogetherPastPracticeVirtueOur LivesYouthComfortConscienceFruitPursuitOld AgeWitnessLabourYieldRemembranceEmployedReapUnspeakableArmourGood ActionsBearing WitnessUseful Knowledge Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero