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A hundred things are done today in the divine name of Youth, that if they showed their true colors would be seen by rights to belong rather to old age.

Quotes by Wyndham Lewis

But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave.

Quotes by William Wordsworth

Just as the blurring between childhood and adulthood has produced the kidult, so the stretching of middle into old age has fostered another peculiar chimera: septuagenarians with apoptosis sporting the depeche mode.

Quotes by Will Self

In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.

Quotes by Will Durant

Those who have no hope pass their old age shrouded with an inward gloom.

Quotes by Wilfred Owen

Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.

Quotes by Walter Savage Landor

Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Quotes by W. Somerset Maugham

Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

Quotes by W. Somerset Maugham

Both my parents developed dementia in their old age. Everyone I know whose parents had dementia feel that they didn't deal with it very well.

Quotes by Tony Robinson

The exhaustion of old age is something people who are younger don't fully appreciate.

Quotes by Tony Benn

The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.

Quotes by Thomas Hardy

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age.

Quotes by Thomas Bailey Aldrich

How young can you die of old age?

Steven Wright

I tend not to think about living to some grand old age. Then again, I don't think about dying, either.

Quotes by Stella Young

Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.

Quotes by Soren Kierkegaard

Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.

Quotes by Sinclair Lewis

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 laugh.

Quotes by Simon Le Bon

Where nothing in a person's earlier years lends itself to an old age devoted to continuing intellectual and physical pursuits, a late-life interest in Tolstoy or even crossword puzzles is unlikely to appear, no matter the urging by well-intentioned social workers or people like me who write books about it.

Quotes by Sherwin B. Nuland

There are times when the presence of more choices can make us choose things that are not good for us. For me the clearest example is that the more retirement fund options a person has, the less likely they are to save for their old age.

Quotes by Sheena Iyengar

I only seek in my old age to perfect that which I had not before thoroughly learned in my youth, because my sins were a hindrance to me.

Quotes by Saint Patrick

While eliminating smallpox and curtailing cholera added decades of life to vast populations, cures for the chronic diseases of old age cannot have the same effect on life expectancy. A cure for cancer would be miraculous and welcome, but it would lead to only a three-year increase in life expectancy at birth.

Quotes by S. Jay Olshansky

I was hoping I could die of old age in the military, but they wouldnt let me.

Quotes by Rudy Boesch

To be old is to be part of a huge and ordinary multitude... the reason why old age was venerated in the past was because it was extraordinary.

Quotes by Ronald Blythe

The public has lost faith in the ability of Social Security and Medicare to provide for old age. They've lost faith in the banking system and in conventional medical insurance.

Quotes by Ron Chernow

While I had often said that I wanted to die in bed, what I really meant was that in my old age I wanted to be stepped on by an elephant while making love.

Quotes by Roger Zelazny

My heroes are people like Picasso and Miro and people who at last really reach something in their old age, which they absolutely couldn't ever have done in their youth.

Quotes by Robert Wyatt

Be eccentric now. Don't wait for old age to wear purple.

Quotes by Regina Brett

In youth, the days are short and the years are long. In old age, the years are short and days long.

Quotes by Pope Paul VI

A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.

Quotes by Pindar

Old age is when the liver spots show through your gloves.

Quotes by Phyllis Diller

Old age isn't a battle; old age is a massacre.

Philip Roth

There's no such thing as old age. I'm no different now than I was 50 years ago. I'm just having more fun.

Quotes by Philip Johnson

We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.

Quotes by Pearl S. Buck

The three touchstones that woke Buddha up - sickness, old age, and death - are a pretty good place to start when crafting a tragic tale. And if we need to get more specific: heartbreak, destruction, miscomprehension, natural disasters, betrayal, and the waste of human potential.

Quotes by Paul Di Filippo

The fear of old age is something that one feels when they're younger. Once you get to being old, you're already there, so you don't even think about it anymore.

Quotes by Paolo Sorrentino

I have always paid income tax. I object only when it reaches a stage when I am threatened with having nothing left for my old age - which is due to start next Tuesday or Wednesday.

Quotes by Noel Coward

What a lot of the public doesn't know, and I'm sure my fans aren't aware of, orcas have died living at Sea World, and that has not been from old age.

Quotes by Noah Cyrus

I'm getting older and mellower in my old age.

Quotes by Nick Nurse

When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

Quotes by Muriel Spark

I want a comfortable old age and to be looked after - I have arthritis - and money is a factor.

Quotes by Miriam Margolyes

Save your money. You're going to need twice as much money in your old age as you think.

Quotes by Michael Caine

People do not realize that Alzheimer's is not old age. It is a progressive and fatal disease and staggering amounts of people develop Alzheimer's every day.

Quotes by Melina Kanakaredes

No sociologist should think himself too good, even in his old age, to make tens of thousands of quite trivial computations in his head and perhaps for months at a time.

Quotes by Max Weber

A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.

Quotes by Maurice Chevalier

Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.

Quotes by Maurice Chevalier

Old age: I fall asleep during the funerals of my friends.

Quotes by Mason Cooley

The popular mythology of creative genius depends on beloved stereotypes of the artist in youth and old age: the misunderstood upstart who forces us to see the world afresh; and the revered sage who shows us depths of insight attainable only through a lifetime of hard-won experience.

Quotes by Martin Filler

The themes that make one laugh always stem from poverty, hunger, misery, old age, sickness, and death. These are the themes that make Italians laugh, anyway.

Quotes by Mario Monicelli

The study of expression ought to form a part of the study of psychology, but it also comes within the province of anthropology because the habitual, life-long expressions of the face determine the wrinkles of old age, which are distinctly an anthropological characteristic.

Quotes by Maria Montessori

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 our journey's end.

Quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero

One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up.

Quotes by Malcolm Muggeridge

Old age is not a disease - it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.

Quotes by Maggie Kuhn

When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

Quotes by Madame de Stael

Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.

Quotes by Lydia M. Child

Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.

Quotes by Louis Kronenberger

I don't believe in giving in to old age.

Quotes by Leslie Bricusse

Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.

Quotes by Leon Trotsky

Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

Quotes by Lawrence Durrell

Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age.

Quotes by Lactantius

In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived.

Quotes by Knut Hamsun

In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.

Quotes by Josh Billings

Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.

Quotes by Joseph Addison

Either God is alive, in which case he'll deal with us as he sees fit. Or he is dead, in which case he was never alive, it being unlikely that he died of old age.

Quotes by John Ralston Saul

You need someone to ground you because if you start believing that your public persona is your only and real persona, then you're looking at a very long and lonely old age.

Quotes by John Nettles

The goal of my diet-style is eating for optimal health and longevity. What greater benefit could there be than living healthfully and actively into old age with no dependence on medications and almost no risk of heart disease, diabetes or dementia?

Quotes by Joel Fuhrman

Besides, wouldn't it be wonderful if no one ever had to worry about the random cruelty of fatal illness or the woes of old age attacking them or their loved ones?

Quotes by Joan D. Vinge

A newspaper is lumber made malleable. It is ink made into words and pictures. It is conceived, born, grows up and dies of old age in a day.

Quotes by Jim Bishop

What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.

Quotes by Jean Paul

As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.

Quotes by Jean Paul

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

Quotes by James Thurber

The New Age? It's just the old age stuck in a microwave oven for fifteen seconds.

Quotes by James Randi

It's one of the terrors of old age that your body is not your friend. Or to be out on the street and be frightened of someone because you're not in good shape and can't do anything about it.

Quotes by Israel Horovitz

The Tibetans are dirty. They wash once a year and, except for festivals, seldom change their clothes till they begin to drop off. They are healthy and hardy; even the women can carry weights of sixty pounds over the passes. They attain extreme old age; their voices are harsh and loud, and their laughter is noisy and hearty.

Quotes by Isabella Bird

Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.

Quotes by Ira Gershwin

I don't tap dance, and I don't think you can learn to tap dance in three weeks at my ripe old age.

Quotes by Huey Lewis

Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.

Quotes by Hosea Ballou

Nevertheless, whether in occurrences lasting days, hours or mere minutes at a time, I have experienced happiness often, and have had brief encounters with it in my later years, even in old age.

Quotes by Hermann Hesse

Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age.

Quotes by Hesiod

A man's character never changes radically from youth to old age. What happens is that circumstances bring out characteristics which have not been obvious to the superficial observer.

Quotes by Hesketh Pearson

I admire those people who hold on to their elegance in old age but I'd rather have fun.

Quotes by Heather Graham

In my cranky old age, I actually prefer recording alone now, on 'The Simpsons,' for example, because I find that the director can just focus on what I'm doing and I can do a lot of variations. A lot of times, when I record with a group, I'll stay after class for another hour or two.

Quotes by Hank Azaria

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.

Quotes by Golda Meir

Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age.

Quotes by George Sand

Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.

Quotes by Geoffrey Chaucer

He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled.

Quotes by Gene Fowler

Pretend to be dumb, that's the only way to reach old age.

Quotes by Friedrich Durrenmatt

We've put more effort into helping folks reach old age than into helping them enjoy it.

Quotes by Frank A. Clark

We all wish to reach a ripe old age, but none of us are prepared to admit that we are already there.

Quotes by Francisco de Quevedo

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

Quotes by Francis Bacon

I think God just died of old age. And, when I realized that he wasn't any more, it didn't shock me. It seemed natural and right!

Quotes by Frances Farmer

The crucial task of old age is balance: keeping just well enough, just brave enough, just gay and interested and starkly honest enough to remain a sentient human being.

Quotes by Florida Scott-Maxwell

Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.

Quotes by Felix Frankfurter

There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

Quotes by Fay Weldon

Somehow, when you think about yourself in old age, you think you're going to be this completely different person that you don't even recognize - because you can't imagine it, you know?

Quotes by Emmylou Harris

Old age is the only thing that lives up to its reputation.

Quotes by Emily Levine

Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

Quotes by Emily Dickinson

It is, of course, quite natural that a biologist whose attention had been aroused by noticing in his own case the phenomena of precocious old age should turn to study the causes of it.

Quotes by Elie Metchnikoff

The appearance of aged persons is too well known to make detailed description necessary. The skin of the face is dry and wrinkled and generally pale. The hairs on the head and the body are white. The back is bent, and the gait is slow and laborious, whilst the memory is weak. Such are the most familiar traits of old age.

Quotes by Elie Metchnikoff

The old age of lower mammals presents characters similar to those found in man.

Quotes by Elie Metchnikoff

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

Quotes by Eleanor Roosevelt

Expansions do not die of old age. The probability of recession in the following year is the same for a three-year-old expansion as it is for a five- or six-year-old expansion.

Quotes by Edgar Fiedler

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