- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Old Age Quotes
Comparing the pleasures of later life with those of youth.
Old age is described here as ready to take on long, slow tasks that youth would avoid out of impatience, and its pleasures are treated as real even though they differ sharply from youth's. This page gathers quotes comparing the two stages. Related reading continues on Age quotes.
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- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want a comfortable old age and to be looked after - I have arthritis - and money is a factor.
- As Much Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
Save your money. You're going to need twice as much money in your old age as you think.
- Day
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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.
- Good
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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.
- Eternal Youth
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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.
- Bad
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Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.
- Fall
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Old age: I fall asleep during the funerals of my friends.
- Attainable
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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.
- Death
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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.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Age
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Giving
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up.
- Disease
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- Nov 07, 2020
Old age is not a disease - it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
- Childhood
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- Nov 07, 2020
Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.
- At Least One
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- Nov 07, 2020