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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Herman Melville Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.
    Herman Melville
    American author (1819 - 1891)
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  • Lawrence Durrell Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.
    Lawrence Durrell
    British Author (1912 - 1990)
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  • André Maurois Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.
    André Maurois
    French writer (ps. van mile Herzog) (1885 - 1967)
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  • Theodore Roosevelt Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Fred Astaire Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
    Fred Astaire
    American dancer, singer, actor and choreographer (1899 - 1987)
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  • Golda Meir Old age is like flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.
    Golda Meir
    Prime Minister of Israel (1898 - 1978)
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  • Maurice Chevalier Old age is not so bad when you consider the alternatives.
    Maurice Chevalier
    French actor and comedian (1888 - 1972)
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  • William Somerset Maugham Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Leon Trotsky Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.
    Leon Trotsky
    Russian revolutionary and writer (1879 - 1940)
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  • Amelia E. Barr Old age is the verdict of life.
    Amelia E. Barr
    British novelist and teacher (1831 - 1919)
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  • Antiphanes Old age is, so to speak, the sanctuary of ills: they all take refuge in it.
    Antiphanes
    Ancient Greek poet (408 - 334)
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  • Philip Roth Old age isn't a battle; old age is a massacre.
    Everyman (2006)
    Philip Roth
    American Novelist (1933 - 2018)
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  • Maurice Chevalier Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.
    Maurice Chevalier
    French actor and comedian (1888 - 1972)
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  • Søren Kierkegaard 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.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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  • Jane Harrison 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.
    Jane Harrison
    British classical scholar and linguist
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  • Walt Whitman Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Alfredo La Mont 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
    Alfredo La Mont
    American writer
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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