#old age

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

— David Mamet

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One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up. ↗

— Malcolm Muggeridge

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In my old age I've come to find that if you respect other people, you feel better about yourself. ↗

— Bijou Phillips

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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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To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age. ↗

— Thomas Bailey Aldrich

#cheerful #heart #hopeful #keep #kindly