#old age

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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Old age is no place for sissies. ↗

— Bette Davis

#old #old age #place #sissies

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

#breadth #broad #calm #death #delicious

Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#age #along #drag #error #into

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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In my old age, I'll be in L.A. ↗

— David Hockney

#i #old #old age

Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age. ↗

— Hesiod

#age #cause #comes #deadly #does

Nevertheless, whether in occurrences lasting days, hours or mere minutes at a time, I have experienced happiness often, and have had brief encounters with it in my later years, even in old age. ↗

— Herman Hesse

#brief #days #encounters #even #experienced

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

— Joseph Addison

#both #forget #give #men #old

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

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

#dumb #old #old age #only #pretend