Best Old Age Sayings
819 Old Age quotes by 543 unique authors
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Old age deprives the intelligent man only of qualities useless to wisdom.
— Joseph Joubert
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For the complete life, the perfect pattern includes old age as well as youth and maturity.
— W. Somerset Maugham
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If a man would register all his opinions upon love, politics, religion, learning etc., beginning from his youth, and so go to old age, what…
— Jonathan Swift
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I'm learning in my old age that the only thing you can do to keep your sanity is to stay in the moment.
— Willem Dafoe
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Old age is not a total misery. Experience helps.
— Euripides
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Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife, This simple boon I beg of Fate - A thousand years…
— Carolyn Wells
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If the soul has food for study and learning, nothing is more delightful than an old age of leisure.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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A life of peace, purity and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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An intemperate, disorderly youth will bring to old age, a feeble and worn-out body.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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I know not any season of life that is past more agreeably than virtuous old age.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Rashness attends youth, as prudence does old age.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Never use the passing years as an excuse for old age.
— Robert Breault
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When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.
— Jonathan Swift
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Who does not wish to be beautiful, and clever, and rich, and to have back, in old age, the time spent trying to be any…
— Robert Breault
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The mere man of pleasure is miserable in old age, and the mere drudge in business is but little better, whereas, natural philosophy, mathematical and…
— Thomas Paine
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I think if a physician wrote on a death certificate that old age was the cause of death, he'd be thrown out of the union.…
— George Wald
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Nothing is more despicable than the old age of a passionate man. When the vigour of youth fails him, and his amusements pall with frequent…
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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I am afraid, ... that health begins, after seventy, and often long before, to have a meaning different from that which it had at thirty.…
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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Every funeral may justly be considered as a summons to prepare for that state into which it shows us that we must some time enter;…
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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It is not uncommon for those who at their first entrance into the world were distinguished for attainments or abilities, to disappoint the hopes which…
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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Those who love not their fellow-beings live unfruitful lives, and prepare for their old age a miserable grave.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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The pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion.
— Democritus
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