Best Old Age Wisdom
819 Old Age quotes by 543 unique authors
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Today, when death and old age are increasingly concealed behind euphemisms and comforting baby talk, and life is threatened with being smothered in the mass…
— Martin Esslin
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After a stronghold has been made of the bones, it is covered with flesh and blood, and there dwell in it old age and death,…
— Unknown Author
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Thus this Earth resembles a great animall or rather an inanimate vegetable, draws in aethereal breath for its dayly refreshment and vitall ferment and transpires…
— Isaac Newton
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Very odd, old age. Always knew it would happen, if I was lucky. I just didn't expect it so soon.
— Josephine Hart
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The delights of reading impart the vivacity of youth even to old age.
— Isaac D'Israeli
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Old age is not a time of life. It is a condition of the body. It is not time that ages the body, it is…
— Herbert M. Shelton
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I don't tap dance, and I don't think you can learn to tap dance in three weeks at my ripe old age.
— Huey Lewis
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I have observed that, generally speaking, network sports announcers did not tend to live to a ripe old age. On the other hand, I had…
— Lindsey Nelson
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Only 1 percent of the homosexual population in America will die of old age. The average life expectancy for a homosexual in the United States…
— Rod Parsley
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Marriage is more permanent than love. Love may be eternal, but it is not permanent. It may continue forever and forever, but there is no…
— Rajneesh
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May you keep dreaming until the day you die. May imagination overtake memory. May you die young at a ripe old age.
— Mark Batterson
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Sibelius justified the austerity of his old age by saying that while other composers were engaged in manufacturing cocktails, he offered the public pure cold…
— Neville Cardus
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Possibly the best suggestion in condensed form, as to how to live, was given by my old Headmaster, Dr. Haig Brown, in 1904, when he…
— Robert Baden-Powell
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Among us, I am happy to say, old age is honorable, and regarded as a blessing from the Lord. It is our duty to desire…
— Lorenzo Snow
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Life is not stationary. Seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, and years all tick away at the same clip for everyone. No age-group can be…
— Hugh W. Pinnock
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Other relaxations are peculiar to certain times, places and stages of life, but the study of letters is the nourishment of our youth, and the…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Tzu Li went to see Tzu Lai who was dying. Leaning against the door, he said, 'Great is the Creator! What will he make of…
— Zhuangzi
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Books are the food of youth, the delight of old age; the ornament of prosperity, the refuge and comfort of adversity; a delight at home,…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Gather, gather your youth: Just like this flower, old age Your beauty will wither.
— Pierre de Ronsard
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If you have only two or three things that you can enjoy and they are things which time and decay may remove from you, what…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Those who are born of parents broken with old age, or of such as are not yet ripe or are too young, or of drunkards,…
— Thomas Willis
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Old age is a powerful disguise.
— Katherine Applegate
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Herein lies the real value of education. Advanced education may or may not make men and women more efficient; but it enriches personality, increases the…
— William Lyon Phelps
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Greatness is never appreciated in youth, called pride in midlife, dismissed in old age, and reconsidered in death. Because we cannot tolerate greatness in our…
— J. Michael Straczynski
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As I give thought to the matter, I find four causes for the apparent misery of old age; first it withdraws us from active accomplishments;…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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