Old Age Quotes And Sayings

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“Not even old age knows how to love death.”
– Anonymous

“Old age and the passage of time teach all things.”
– Anonymous

“Old men’s prayers for death are lying prayers, in which they abuse old age and long extent of life. But when death draws near, not one is willing to die, and age no longer is a burden to them.”
– Anonymous

“Education is the best provision for old age.”
– Anonymous

“Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.”
– Anonymous

“Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age.”
– Anonymous

“The old are in a second childhood.”
– Anonymous

“The habits of a young man are, like his coat, removable; the habits of an old man are like the drapery of a statue.”
– Anonymous

“The only real change in life comes with the consciousness of old age.”
– Anonymous

“I do not wish to grow old, to outlive my illusions. Only a short respite from cares and sorrow, a brief time of flowers, and music, and love, and laughter, and ecstatic tears.”
– Anonymous

“The art of growing old is the art of being regarded by the oncoming generations as a support and not as a stumbling- block.”
– Anonymous

“Growing old is no more than a bad habit a busy man has no time to form”
– Anonymous

“The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.”
– Anonymous

“To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.”
– Anonymous

“Parker, I’m old,” She said matter- of- factly. “I get away with these things.” She continued to wave and smile wildly. “People treat me like an idiot so I’m allowed to act like one from time to time. It’s one of the perks.”
– Anonymous

“Was it the forgetfulness of old age or personal incapacity that made the man able to say please but not thank you?”
– Anonymous

“You were young, I thought, not once but always before, always always, every day before the day just passed. You were young only minutes ago.”
– Anonymous

“You read the past in some old faces.”
– Anonymous

“Old age is just a record of one’s whole life.”
– Anonymous

“A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.”
– Anonymous

“Old age: the crown of life, our play’s last act.”
– Anonymous

“Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.”
– Anonymous

Old age is no place for sissies.
– Anonymous

“For the last four years of her life, Mother was in a nursing home called Chateins in St. Louis … [S]ix months before she died I sent a Mother’s Day card. There was a horrible, mushy poem in it. I remember feeling “vaguely guilty.”
– Anonymous

“They only name things after you when you’re dead or really old.”
– Anonymous

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