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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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- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
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?
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
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?
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
The New Age? It's just the old age stuck in a microwave oven for fifteen seconds.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Hair
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- Nov 07, 2020
Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.
- Dance
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't tap dance, and I don't think you can learn to tap dance in three weeks at my ripe old age.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020