Best Old Age Quotes
819 Old Age quotes by 543 unique authors
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When you are forty, half of you belongs to the past... And when you are seventy, nearly all of you.
— Jean Anouilh
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The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies fast away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and women, old age is…
— Juvenal
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The self (Soul) is the constant-witness consciousness. Through all months, seasons and years, through all divisions of time, the past, present and future the consciousness…
— Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
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The Author of nature has not given laws to the universe, which, like the institutions of men, carry in themselves the elements of their own…
— John Playfair
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I did not know then how much was ended. When I look back now from this high hill of my old age, I can still…
— Black Elk
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Wine is a living liquid containing no preservatives. Its life cycle comprises youth, maturity, old age, and death. When not treated with reasonable respect it…
— Julia Child
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Alas, Postumus, the fleeting years slip by, nor will piety give any stay to wrinkles and pressing old age and untamable death.
— Horace
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I keep thinking how young can you die from old age
— Drake
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Seek to learn constantly while you live; do not wait in the faith that old age by itself will bring wisdom.
— Solon
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The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you're learning you're not old.
— Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
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I want to die young at a ripe old age.
— Ashley Montagu
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The heads of strong old age are beautiful beyond all grace of youth.
— Robinson Jeffers
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There is this difference between the grief of youth and that of old age; youth's burden is lightened by as much of it as another…
— O. Henry
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Four specters haunt the Poor - Old Age, Accident, Sickness and Unemployment. We are going to exorcise them. We are going to drive hunger from…
— David Lloyd George
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Four specters haunt the poor - old age, accident, sickness and unemployment
— David Lloyd George
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The biggest surprise in a man's life is old age.
— Ben Kingsley
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It is quite wrong to think of old age as a downward slope. On the contrary, one climbs higher and higher with the ad-vancing years,…
— George Sand
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Virginity is now a mere preamble or waiting room to be got out of as soon as possible; it is without significance. Old age is…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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I don't know how you feel about old age... but in my case I didn't even see it coming. It hit me from the rear.
— Phyllis Diller
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I fear vastly more a futile, incompetent old age than I do any form of death.
— William Allen White
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They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old. Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down…
— Laurence Binyon
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I prefer old age to the alternative.
— Maurice Chevalier
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Old age: The estuary that enlarges and spreads itself grandly as it pours into the Great Sea.
— Walt Whitman
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Old age takes away from us what we have inherited and gives us what we have earned.
— Gerald Brenan
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It is, indeed, only in old age that intellectual men attain their sublime expression, whilst portraits of them in their youth show only the first…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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