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819 Old Age quotes by 543 unique authors

Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age, and to imagine right up to the brink of death that life… — George Sand
The monkish vows keep us far from that sink of vice that is the female body, but often they bring us close to other errors.… — Umberto Eco
Freedom conceives that the mind and spirit of man can be free only if he is free to pattern his own life, to develop his… — Herbert Hoover
You think it horrible that lust and rage Should dance attention upon my old age; They were not such a plague when I was young;… — William Butler Yeats
See all the women seated, youth in their face lifts, old age in their hands. — J P Donleavy
When intelligent and sensible people despise knowledge in their old age, it is only because they have asked too much of it and of themselves. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I have long been a critic of Social Security, basically because I believe that it is not the business of government to tell people what… — Milton Friedman
Those who have no hope pass their old age shrouded with an inward gloom. — Wilfred Owen
Caution and conservatism are expected of old age; but when the young men of a nation are possessed of such a spirit, when they are… — Henry Ward Beecher
Discouragement is of all ages: In youth it is a presentiment, in old age a remembrance. — Honore de Balzac
I am a citizen of the world, and I have met, in my time, with so many different sorts of virtue, that I am puzzled,… — Wilkie Collins
Myths are about the human struggle to deal with the great passages of time and life--birth, death, marriage, the transitions from childhood to adulthood to… — Michael Shermer
Free government cannot long endure if property is largely in a few hands, and large masses of people are unable to earn homes, education, and… — Rutherford B. Hayes
Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending; a negligent youth is usually attended by an ignorant middle… — Anne Bradstreet
If the awareness of our limitations begins to limit or to dim our value consciousness as well—as happens, for instance, in old age with regard… — Max Scheler
Yet there's something ominous about turning sixty-five. Suddenly old age is not a phenomenon which will occur; it has occurred. — Colleen McCullough
I believe you can train yourself to become a positive thinker, but you must cultivate a desire to develop the skill of setting personal worthy… — M. Russell Ballard
We hope to grow old and we dread old age; that is to say, we love life and we flee from death. — Jean de la Bruyere
Why should we stunt our ambitions and impoverish our lives in order to be insulted and looked down upon in our old age? — Joseph A. Schumpeter
The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long. — A J P Taylor
I think repeating yourself is a sign of old age, telling the same joke again and again. Especially if they're jokes that don't make people… — Simon Le Bon
A person's life from infancy to old age is nothing else than an advance from the world towards heaven, the last stage of which is… — Emanuel Swedenborg
In this respect early youth is exactly like old age; it is a time of waiting for a big trip to an unknown destination. The… — Bruce Catton
In Indiana we had a queen we named Alice which lived to the ripe old age of eight years and two months and did excellent… — Jay Smith
We retire too early and we die too young, our prime of life should be in the 70's and old age should not come until… — Joseph Pilates

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