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Quotes about Olderness

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Quotes about Olderness

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Old age ... it is the only disease you don't look forward to being cured of.

Author: Herman Jacob Mankiewicz (1897 - 1953) | Theme: Olderness | Clicks: 0 | Rank: 0 | Fav

Ages seldom arrives smoothly or quickly. It's often a succession of jerks.

Author: Jean Rhys (1890 - 1979) | Theme: Olderness | Clicks: 0 | Rank: 0 | Fav

Old age is the out-patients'department of purgatory.

Author: Hugh Cecil (1869 - 1956) | Theme: Olderness | Clicks: 0 | Rank: 0 | Fav

You grew old first not in your own eyes, but in other people's eyes; slowly, you agreed with their opinion of you.

Author: Julian Patrick Barnes (1946) | Theme: Olderness | Clicks: 0 | Rank: 10.00 | Fav

Old age itself is a disease. Formio

Author: Publius Terentius Afer (185 iH. - 159 iH.) | Theme: Olderness | Clicks: 0 | Rank: 0 | Fav

A love in old age is a bulwark of smoke; a drawn shadow by the barely trembling flame, on the peeled wall.

Author: Cleopatra Lorintiu (1957) | Theme: Olderness | Clicks: 0 | Rank: 10.00 | Fav

People don’t start to get old until they begin to believe that they’ve seen the last of anything new. Lines of Thought by an Unknown Author

Author: Mark Amend (1955) | Theme: Olderness | Clicks: 0 | Rank: 10.00 | Fav

The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.

Author: Thomas Hardy (1840 - 1928) | Theme: Olderness | Clicks: 69 | Rank: 0 | Fav

Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.

Author: Sinclair Lewis (1885 - 1951) | Theme: Olderness | Clicks: 47 | Rank: 0 | Fav

A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.

Author: Jean Rostand (1894 - 1977) | Theme: Olderness | Clicks: 484 | Rank: 10.00 | Fav

In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the passing, we have arrived.

Author: Knut Hamsun (1859 - 1952) | Theme: Olderness | Clicks: 94 | Rank: 0 | Fav

Old age is the supreme evil, for it deprives man of all pleasures while allowing his appetites to remain, and it brings with it every possible sorrow. Yet men fear death and desire old age.

Author: Giacomo Leopardi (1798 - 1837) | Theme: Olderness | Clicks: 729 | Rank: 8.88 | Fav

It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Author: Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834 - 1892) | Theme: Olderness | Clicks: 525 | Rank: 0 | Fav

To have more means often to own less.

Author: Tudor Arghezi (1880 - 1967) | Theme: Olderness | Clicks: 1438 | Rank: 10.00 | Fav

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.

Author: Amos Bronson Alcott (1799-1888) | Theme: Olderness | Clicks: 1064 | Rank: 10.00 | Fav

A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.

Author: Pindar (522-433 iC) | Theme: Olderness | Clicks: 831 | Rank: 0 | Fav

I think all old folk's homes should have striptease. If I ran one I'd have a striptease every week.

Author: Cynthia Payne (1932) | Theme: Olderness | Clicks: 177 | Rank: 0 | Fav

I don't feel any older now than when I was 70.

Author: John Patrick (1905 - 1995) | Theme: Olderness | Clicks: 185 | Rank: 0 | Fav

I'm old enough and cranky enough now that if someone tried to tell me what to do, I'd tell them where to put it.

Author: Dolly Parton (1946) | Theme: Olderness | Clicks: 140 | Rank: 0 | Fav

How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are.

Author: Satchel Paige (1906 - 1982) | Theme: Olderness | Clicks: 164 | Rank: 0 | Fav
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