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Old age is like flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.
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Old age is not so bad when you consider the alternatives.
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Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
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Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.
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Old age is, so to speak, the sanctuary of ills: they all take refuge in it.
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Old age isn't a battle; old age is a massacre.
Everyman (2006) -
Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.
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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.
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Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.
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Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.
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Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.
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Old Age: That period in life when we no longer care where our wife is going, as long as she doesn't want us to come along
Reader's Digest, February 1992 -
Old books, you know well, are books of the world's youth, and new books are the fruits of its age.
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Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past.
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Once in a while, the thumb that fits over the neck of the guitar kinda bothers me a little bit, but not that much yet. I figure in time I won't do much because of my age.
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One becomes a grandfather and one sees the world a little differently. Certainly the world becomes a more vulnerable place when one has a grandchild, or now I have two. And I think that possibly there's some tenderness that came out of just time and age and being a parent and grandparent.
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One hour of right-down love is worth an age of dully living on.
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One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind.
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One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
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