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Old Age Quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero
- Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.
- Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.
- Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to…
- The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.
- If the soul has food for study and learning, nothing is more delightful than an old age of leisure.
- A life of peace, purity and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age.
- An intemperate, disorderly youth will bring to old age, a feeble and worn-out body.
- I know not any season of life that is past more agreeably than virtuous old age.
- Rashness attends youth, as prudence does old age.
- 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.
- The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.
- Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.
- 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…
- Exercise and temperance can preserve something of our early strength even in old age.
- 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…
- 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,…
- 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;…
- A youth of sensuality and intemperance delivers over to old age a worn-out body.
- No one is so old that he does not think he could live another year.
- The best Armour of Old Age is a well spent life preceding it; a Life employed in the Pursuit of useful Knowledge, in honourable Actions…
- Let us assume that entertainment is the sole end of reading; even so I think you would hold that no mental employment is so broadening…
- Old age has been charged with being insensible to pleasure and to enjoyments arising from the gratification of the senses, a most blessed and heavenly…
More Old Age Quotes
- Education is the best provision for old age. — Aristotle
- Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age. — Aristotle
- I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am. — Francis Bacon
- To me - old age is always ten years older than I am. — Bernard Baruch
- It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms… — Simone de Beauvoir
- Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both. — Joseph Addison
- A newspaper is lumber made malleable. It is ink made into words and pictures. It is conceived, born, grows up and dies… — Jim Bishop
- To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in… — Alan Bleasdale
- My mother enjoyed old age, and because of her I've begun to enjoy parts of it too. So far I've had it… — Lionel Blue
- Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly… — Charlotte Bronte
- There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age. — Bill Bryson
- We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation… — Pearl S. Buck