#old age

In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived. ↗

— Knut Hamsun

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I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#always #am #i #i am #man

We've put more effort into helping folks reach old age than into helping them enjoy it. ↗

— Frank A. Clark

#effort #enjoy #folks #helping #into

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

Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#absurd #advice #approach #end #foolish

Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

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Pretend to be dumb, that's the only way to reach old age. ↗

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

#dumb #old #old age #only #pretend

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

— Charles Eastman

#happiest #life #old #old age #our

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