Old Age Quotes
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Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
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There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.
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What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.
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It is really, really wonderful that in your old age you are protected by specialists who understand your problems and sort them out for you. Well, isn't that what we all need?
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I only seek in my old age to perfect that which I had not before thoroughly learned in my youth, because my sins were a hindrance to me.
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Old age is not a disease - it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.
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Education is the best provision for old age.
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The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.
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The wonderful thing about modern medicine is that so many of these complaints that used to signify old age and decline can be coped with.
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When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
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How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
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I think God just died of old age. And, when I realized that he wasn't any more, it didn't shock me. It seemed natural and right!
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Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.
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One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up.
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All diseases run into one, old age.
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The fear of old age is something that one feels when they're younger. Once you get to being old, you're already there, so you don't even think about it anymore.
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The crucial task of old age is balance: keeping just well enough, just brave enough, just gay and interested and starkly honest enough to remain a sentient human being.
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There's to be a film about my life. I can give this as an exclusive now. Meryl Streep was offered the part but, no, I wanted Kate Winslet. Kylie Minogue is playing me in middle age. In old age, I'm not sure who's going to play me. I haven't got there yet. Perhaps Cate Blanchett. Or Jacki Weaver.
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Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
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Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
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To be rejected on account of old age may or may not feel the same as being rejected on the basis of race or sex. But it is clearly unjust and dehumanizing, and the law should take it more seriously than it does.
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Many believe – and I believe – that I have been designated for this work by God. In spite of my old age, I do not want to give it up; I work out of love for God and I put all my hope in Him.
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Old age is not a total misery. Experience helps.
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The gods bestowed on Max the gift of perpetual old age.
