Quotes 1881 till 1900 of 3762.
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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
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Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.
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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.
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Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
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Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
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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.
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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
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