#old age

Old age is a shipwreck. ↗

— Charles de Gaulle

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The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long. ↗

— A. J. P. Taylor

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How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

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I don't tap dance, and I don't think you can learn to tap dance in three weeks at my ripe old age. ↗

— Huey Lewis

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Old age is a woman's hell. ↗

— Ninon de L'Enclos

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Old age and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance. ↗

— David Mamet

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

— W. Somerset Maugham

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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

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

— W. Somerset Maugham

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It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age. ↗

— Margaret Mead

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