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Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man. -- Leon Trotsky
I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am. -- Francis Bacon
How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete. -- C. S. Lewis
It is folly alone that stays the fugue of Youth and beats off touring Old Age. -- Desiderius Erasmus
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young. -- Theodore Roosevelt
Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do. -- Golda Meir
In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long. -- Pope Paul VI
Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week. -- Louis Kronenberger
Youth, large, lusty, loving -- Youth, full of grace, force, fascination. Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination? -- Walt Whitman
Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you'd never complete your life, would you? You'd never wholly know you. -- Marilyn Monroe
When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator. -- Confucius
Four specters haunt the Poor - Old Age, Accident, Sickness and Unemployment. We are going to exorcise them. We are going to drive hunger from the hearth. We mean to banish the workhouse from the horizon of every workman in the land. -- David Lloyd George
Old age is no place for sissies. -- Bette Davis
Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
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No man loves life like him that's growing old. -- Sophocles
Old age isn't a battle; old age is a massacre. -- Philip Roth
Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative. -- Maurice Chevalier
Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret. -- Benjamin Disraeli
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age. -- Victor Hugo
Whatever poet, orator, or sage may say of it, old age is still old age. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth. -- W. Somerset Maugham
We've put more effort into helping folks reach old age than into helping them enjoy it. -- Frank A. Clark
Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young. -- Arthur Wing Pinero
When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age. -- Victor Hugo
To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age. -- Thomas Bailey Aldrich
When you are forty, half of you belongs to the past... And when you are seventy, nearly all of you. -- Jean Anouilh
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm. -- Aldous Huxley
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm. -- Aldous Huxley
Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty. -- Coco Chanel
Old age is not a disease - it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses. -- Maggie Kuhn
Old age is a shipwreck. -- Charles de Gaulle
Old age is not for sissies. -- Malcolm Forbes
Slowly and imperceptibly old age comes creeping on. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Old age and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance. -- David Mamet
Be eccentric now. Don't wait for old age to wear purple. -- Regina Brett
Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age. -- George Sand
Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age. -- Booth Tarkington
In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us. -- Beverly Sills
Old age means realizing you will never own all the dogs you wanted to. -- Joe Gores
To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age. -- Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years. -- Ausonius
You cant reach old age by another man's road, my habits protect my life but they would assassinate you -- Mark Twain
To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age. -- Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier years. -- Charlotte Bronte
You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned. -- Judith Viorst
Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement. -- Dwight L. Moody
My life, I realize suddenly, is July. Childhood is June, and old age is August, but here it is, July, and my life, this year, is July inside of July. -- Rick Bass
I have always paid income tax. I object only when it reaches a stage when I am threatened with having nothing left for my old age - which is due to start next Tuesday or Wednesday. -- Noel Coward
One of the things you learn in football is that you're only as good as your last outing. I don't like to reflect on what we've done in the past. I'm not a very good storyteller, for one thing. I'd disappoint you. When it's time, I'll talk about the good old days. But it's a sign of old age, reveling in the past. -- Chuck Noll
Old age transfigures or fossilizes. -- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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Old age is life's parody. -- Simone de Beauvoir
Old age ain't for sissies -- Bette Davis
Old age is second childhood. -- Aristophanes
Old age spiritualizes people naturally -- Ram Dass
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No lie ever reaches old age. -- Sophocles
Observation, not old age, brings wisdom. -- Publilius Syrus
Old age is a powerful disguise. -- Katherine Applegate
Old age and youth cannot live together. -- Christina Stead
Old age by nature is rather talkative. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Old age is by nature rather talkative. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
I prefer old age to the alternative. -- Maurice Chevalier
Old age makes caricatures of us all. -- P. D. James
All diseases run into one, old age. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
All diseases run into one, old age -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I've gotten crankier in my old age. -- Shirley MacLaine
Old age is the verdict of life. -- Amelia Barr
(Wine is) the nurse of old age. -- Galen
Old age treats freelance writers pretty gently. -- John Updike
Old age is but a second childhood. -- Aristophanes
Hope remains the highest reality, the age-old power. -- Ronald Reagan
Old age is the Outpatient's Dept of purgatory. -- William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley
Everyone desires long life, not one old age. -- Jonathan Swift
Education is the best provision for old age. -- Aristotle
When does the loneliness of old age begin? -- Janusz Korczak
The real affliction of old age is remorse. -- Cesare Pavese
Old age is an excellent time for outrage. -- Maggie Kuhn
Old age is an island surrounded by death. -- Juan Montalvo
Old age is perhaps life's decision about us ... -- Christina Stead
In old age, mirror is not a friend! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
...there is no old age of the soul. -- Saul Bellow
Old age is the harbor of all ills. -- Wilfred Bion
How young can you die of old age? -- Steven Wright
I am grown peaceful as old age tonight. -- Robert Browning
Old age hath stronger sense of right than youth. -- Aeschylus
Sometimes grown ups don't act their right old age -- Barbara Park
It is easier to counterfeit old age than youth. -- Barbara Mertz
The best security for old age: respect your children. -- Sholem Asch
We grow old more through indolence, than through age. -- Christina, Queen of Sweden
... no problem except old age ever vanquished my mother. -- Miles Franklin
Old age is not a total misery. Experience helps. -- Euripides
In my old age, I'll be in L.A. -- David Hockney
Not even old age knows how to love death. -- Sophocles
A youth of frolic, an old age of cards. -- Alexander Pope
Old age likes indecency. It's a sign of life. -- Mason Cooley
Many talents preserve their precociousness right into old age. -- Karl Kraus
Old age hath yet his honour and his toil. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Old age is fifteen years older than I am. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The worst old age is that of the mind. -- William Hazlitt
Maybe I'll be a feminist in my old age. -- Bjork
The youth is better than the old age of friendship. -- William Hazlitt
Greatness is the dream of youth realized in old age. -- Alfred de Vigny
Old age is not synonymous with being 'glad to die. -- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Writers and filmmakers have this age-old relationship to the material. -- Duncan Roy
Surviving cancer is cool, but surviving old age is cooler. -- Jarod Kintz
Old age is a humble victory in this killing universe. -- Mehmet Murat ildan
The theme of old age doesn't seem to fascinate Hollywood. -- John Updike
Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age. -- Leonardo da Vinci
Little by little old age renders the body less powerful. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Rashness is the companion of youth, prudence of old age. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
...an age-old patter that seemed like chaos but was not... -- Dean Koontz
Old age learns about less after a lifetime of more. -- Mason Cooley
old age' is always ten years more than we are. -- Joan Rivers
In bringing up a child, think of its old age. -- Joseph Joubert
I have the problems of, I must confess, old age. -- Billy Graham
Age is never so old as youth would measure it. -- Jack London

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