Quotes with old-age

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  • William Shakespeare Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; for in my youth I never did apply hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; and did not, with unbashful forehead, woo the means of weakness and debility: therefore my age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Bayard Taylor Till the sun grows cold,
    And the stars are old,
    And the leaves of the Judgment Book unfold.
    Source: Bedouin Song
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Dorothy L. Sayers Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.
    Dorothy L. Sayers
    British writer (1893 - 1957)
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  • A. C. Swinburne Time turns the old days to derision, our loves into corpses or wives; and marriage and death and division make barren our lives.
    A. C. Swinburne
    English poet and playwright (1837 - 1909)
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  • Anne Tyler Time, in general, has always been a central obsession of mine - what it does to people, how it can constitute a plot all on its own. So naturally, I am interested in old age.
    Anne Tyler
    American novelist and short story writer (1941 - )
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  • Ralph Hodgson Time, you old gypsy man, will you not stay, put up your caravan just for one day?
    Ralph Hodgson
     
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  • Euripides To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.
    Euripides
    Greek tragedian and poet (480 - 406)
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  • Ernest Renan To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious.
    Ernest Renan
    French writer and critic (1823 - 1892)
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  • William Hazlitt To be happy, we must be true to nature, and carry our age along with us.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Bill Budge To be honest, I look at my Pinball program and feel that it is old stuff. I could do much better.
    Bill Budge
    American video game programmer and designer (1954 - )
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Alfred Russel Wallace To expect the world to receive a new truth, or even an old truth, without challenging it, is to look for one of those miracles which do not occur.
    Alfred Russel Wallace
    British naturalist, explorer, anthropologist and biologist (1823 - )
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  • Eric Hoffer To grow old is to grow common. Old age equalizes, we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Berthold Auerbach To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.
    Berthold Auerbach
    German-Jewish writer and poet (1812 - 1882)
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  • Bonnie Hunt To have children on the set, you realize that if a 10-year-old can do it, who are you kidding? It humbles you.
    Bonnie Hunt
    American actress, comedian, director and producer (1961 - )
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  • Thomas B. Aldrich To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.
    Thomas B. Aldrich
    American writer, editor (1836 - 1907)
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  • Bruce McCulloch To me, Doors fans were always the 16-year-old idiots at parties, getting stoned, and talking about how Morrison's lyrics were like poetry... like that was a deep thought.
    Bruce McCulloch
    Canadian actor, comedian, writer (1961 - )
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  • William Shakespeare To me, fair friend, you never can be old. For as you were when first your eye I eyed. Such seems your beauty still.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Bernard M. Baruch To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
    Bernard M. Baruch
    American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965)
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  • Bernard M. Baruch To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.
    Source: The Observer, 21 August 1955
    Bernard M. Baruch
    American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965)
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