(Wine is) the nurse
(Wine is) the nurse of old age. Galen
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(Wine is) the nurse of old age. Galen
I grew up in one of the most socially conservative neighborhoods in Ohio, and my parents were traditional Catholics. But in her old age, my mother got her home health care from a guy who was gay, who was wonderful to her. Before she died, she rode a float in the Cincinnati Gay Pride Parade. … Read more
Most fatal diseases had their own specific odor, but … none was as specific as old age. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Carmelia Montiel, a twenty-year-old virgin, had just bathed in orange-blossom water and was strewing rosemary leaves on Pilar Ternera’s bed when the shot rang out. Aureliano José had been destined to find with her the happiness that Amaranta had denied him, to have seven children, and to die in her arms of old age, but … Read more
It was a meditation on life, love, old age, death: ideas that had often fluttered around her head like nocturnal birds but dissolved into a trickle of feathers when she tried to catch hold of them. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
This was when I heard that the first symptom of old age is when you begin to resemble your father. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The truth was that I could not manage my soul, and I was becoming aware of old age because of my weakness in the face of love. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Age isn’t how old you are but how old you feel. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Medical science has oppressed us with a new huge burden of longevity. It is in that last undesired decade, when passion is cold, appetites feeble, curiosity dulled and experience has begotten cynicism, that accidia lies in wait as the final temptation to destruction. Evelyn Waugh