#old age

Old age is a shipwreck. ↗

— Charles de Gaulle

#old #old age #shipwreck

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

— A. J. P. Taylor

#age #fear #go #greatest #greatest problem

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

— C. S. Lewis

#great #how #ills #incessant #old

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

#dance #i #learn #old #old age

Old age is a woman's hell. ↗

— Ninon de L'Enclos

#hell #old #old age #woman

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

— David Mamet

#always #beat #exuberance #old #old age

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