- Man
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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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- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
- Die
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Age
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- Nov 07, 2020
Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself - a lad of about 19.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.
- Die
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- Nov 07, 2020
Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.
- Film And TV
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- Nov 07, 2020
I began auditioning for acting jobs at the ripe old age of 12. Thirty years later, including a 15-year run on television, I sometimes just get offers for work. Often, however, I am still required to run pell-mell around Los Angeles or New York, interviewing for film and TV jobs.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have always thought of myself as an athlete - even at the ripe old age of 52.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
I thought I'd live to a ripe old age, because I always felt there was a lot to do. I had a driven feeling. I always thought in the present.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am involved in a lot of nonprofits. And when I reached the ripe old age of 60, I wanted to provide leadership to some I had been involved in.
- Creeping
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- Nov 07, 2020
Old age has got to start creeping up on me one day soon, and frankly I'm very scared. I don't want to be old. I've always felt so young. And I want to stay that way.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was already devouring literature and I was the ripe old age of 15 when I decided to be an actor. I just thought plays were the most fantastic way of expressing life. I thought I'd discovered Shakespeare - 'hey, there's a new guy in town, don't know if anyone's read him.' I was just excited about the whole thing, from day one.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been screaming at the top of my lungs at my family, 'Work out! Work out! Old age is coming!'
- Callous
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- Nov 07, 2020
Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier years.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020