Quotes by Old Age It is, of course, quite natural that a biologist whose attention had been aroused by noticing in his own case the phenomena of precocious old age should turn to study the causes of it. Elie Metchnikoff own old-age age attention The old age of lower mammals presents characters similar to those found in man. Elie Metchnikoff old man old-age age While eliminating smallpox and curtailing cholera added decades of life to vast populations, cures for the chronic diseases of old age cannot have the same effect on life expectancy. A cure for cancer would be miraculous and welcome, but it would lead to only a three-year increase in life expectancy at birth. S. Jay Olshansky old-age welcome age life When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality. Madame de Stael old old-age age life Expansions do not die of old age. The probability of recession in the following year is the same for a three-year-old expansion as it is for a five- or six-year-old expansion. Edgar Fiedler die year old-age age There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow. Fay Weldon old old-age sorrow age Those who have no hope pass their old age shrouded with an inward gloom. Wilfred Owen old old-age hope age «123456