#old age

There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age. ↗

— Bill Bryson

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In this respect early youth is exactly like old age; it is a time of waiting for a big trip to an unknown destination. The chief difference is that youth waits for the morning limited and age waits for the night train. ↗

— Bruce Catton

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Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity. ↗

— Geoffrey Chaucer

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Old age is no place for sissies. ↗

— Bette Davis

#old #old age #place #sissies

Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought. ↗

— Emily Dickinson

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Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man. ↗

— Leon Trotsky

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I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I'm not old yet! ↗

— Tina Turner

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You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned. ↗

— Judith Viorst

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Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death. ↗

— Edith Wharton

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But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave. ↗

— William Wordsworth

#bright #grave #lead #lovely #night