“What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.” — Jean Paul Quote

“What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.”

“On the church vaulting above was the clock-face of eternity, void of number and serving as its own hand, only one black finger was pointing and the dead wanted to tell the time by it.”

“Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest.”

“A man who correctly guesses a woman's age may be smart, but he's not very bright.”

“I decided to retire from show business at the age of 17, because I didn't like it a bit.”

“When Doris Lessing won the Nobel Prize for Literature at the age of 88, she was the oldest person ever to receive the prize and one of only 11 female winners in its history. Her award was the end of a very long journey from a remote farm in Rhodesia to a banquet at Stockholm's Stadshus, the grand city hall in Stockholm.”