#old age

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

— Charles Eastman

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Old age is a shipwreck. ↗

— Charles de Gaulle

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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

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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

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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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Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death. ↗

— Herman Melville

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