#old age

Pretend to be dumb, that's the only way to reach old age. ↗

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

#dumb #old #old age #only #pretend

Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked. ↗

— Lawrence Durrell

#being #insult #like #old #old age

Our old age was in some respects the happiest period of life. ↗

— Charles Eastman

#happiest #life #old #old age #our

Why do people talk of the horrors of old age? It's great. I feel like a fine old car with the parts gradually wearing out, but I'm not complaining,... Those who find growing old terrible are people who haven't done what they wanted with their lives. ↗

— Martha Gellhorn

#car #complaining #done #feel #find

Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age. ↗

— Walter Savage Landor

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Old age is a woman's hell. ↗

— Ninon de L'Enclos

#hell #old #old age #woman

Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#different #less #old #old age #pleasures

What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#bear #burden #faculties #failing #hard

Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#because #long #old #old age #ready

Those who have no hope pass their old age shrouded with an inward gloom. ↗

— Wilfred Owen

#gloom #hope #inward #old #old age