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819 Old Age quotes by 543 unique authors

How small a portion of our life it is that we really enjoy! In youth we are looking forward to things that are to come;… — Charles Caleb Colton
The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon… — W. Somerset Maugham
In old age our bodies are worn-out instruments, on which the soul tries in vain to play the melodies of youth. But because the instrument… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
There is no old age. There is, as there always was, just you. — Carol Grace
The answer to old age is to keep one's mind busy and to go on with one's life as if it were interminable. I always… — Leon Edel
When I was a kid I respected authority, then as a teenager I gave none; in middle age I expected it; now in old age… — Unknown Author
There can be no freedom of the individual, no democracy, without the capital system, the profit system, the private enterprise system. These are, in the… — Unknown Author
When does the loneliness of old age begin? — Janusz Korczak
I love running. It's as simple as that ... it has given me endless rewards: physical, emotional, and professional. The benefits of running are lifelong.… — Grete Waitz
Old age is but a second childhood. — Aristophanes
We do ourselves and others a disservice when we make old age something to be feared...The longer we live, the more life we possess. — Harold S. Kushner
There is no way to escape death, it is just like trying to escape by four great mountains touching sky. There is no escape from… — Dalai Lama
Old age is an ordeal, of flesh and mind. Of winding down, of slowing down, of dying cells. It's accepting the loss of physical attractiveness… — Colleen McCullough
Such is the depth of the Christian Scriptures, that even if I were attempting to study them and nothing else from early boyhood to decrepit… — Richard Baxter
Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending. — Anne Bradstreet
Enjoy the blessing of strength while you have it and do not bewail it when it is gone, unless, forsooth, you believe that youth must… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
He who cares only for himself in youth will be a very niggard in manhood, and a wretched miser in old age. — Josiah Johnson Hawes
Old age means realizing you will never own all the dogs you wanted to. — Unknown Author
As all things eternal and primordial reappear, so all things mortal return to the earth. Honor, old age, probity, justice, constance, virtue, and gentleness are… — Francis Quarles
Women are not forgiven for aging. Robert Redford's lines of distinction are my old-age wrinkles. — Jane Fonda
True intimacy is a human constant. People of all types find it equally hard to achieve, equally precious to hold. Age, education, social status, make… — Robert Grudin
Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life,… — Christian Nestell Bovee
I who once wrote songs with keen delight am now by sorrow driven to take up melancholy measures. Wounded Muses tell me what I must… — Boethius
Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age. — George Sand
I have achieved my seventy years in the usual way, by sticking strictly to a scheme of life which would kill anybody else....I will offer… — Mark Twain

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