#old age

Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age. ↗

— Aristotle

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One good reason for writing novels based on your life is that you have something to read in old age when you've forgotten what happened. ↗

— Nina Bawden

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In America, people rarely stay in the town where they grew up, rarely stay in close proximity to their parents throughout their lives. You rarely find parents in their old age being taken care of by their children. ↗

— Robert Benton

#america #being #care #children #close

To me - old age is always ten years older than I am. ↗

— John Burroughs

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Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative. ↗

— Maurice Chevalier

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The New Age? It's just the old age stuck in a microwave oven for fifteen seconds. ↗

— James Randi

#fifteen #just #microwave #new #new age

The crucial task of old age is balance: keeping just well enough, just brave enough, just gay and interested and starkly honest enough to remain a sentient human being. ↗

— Florida Scott-Maxwell

#balance #being #brave #crucial #enough

Old age is just a record of one's whole life. ↗

— Muhammad Ali

#just #life #old #old age #record

Education is the best provision for old age. ↗

— Aristotle

#best #education #old #old age #provision

In my cranky old age, I actually prefer recording alone now, on 'The Simpsons,' for example, because I find that the director can just focus on what I'm doing and I can do a lot of variations. A lot of times, when I record with a group, I'll stay after class for another hour or two. ↗

— Hank Azaria

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