#old age

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#adorable #dawn #grace #happy #joined

Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#both #forget #give #men #old

Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years. ↗

— Ausonius

#brings #count #happiness #know #let us

The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#age #blessing #harvest #old #old age

I've been screaming at the top of my lungs at my family, 'Work out! Work out! Old age is coming!' ↗

— Cher

#been #coming #family #i #lungs

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

Old age is a woman's hell. ↗

— Ninon de L'Enclos

#hell #old #old age #woman

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