#old age

Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked. ↗

— Lawrence Durrell

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Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man. ↗

— Felix Frankfurter

#bring #characteristics #essential #man #old

Old age is a shipwreck. ↗

— Charles de Gaulle

#old #old age #shipwreck

Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age. ↗

— Walter Savage Landor

#age #bane #childhood #indulgence #oil

The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long. ↗

— A. J. P. Taylor

#age #fear #go #greatest #greatest problem

How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#great #how #ills #incessant #old

I don't tap dance, and I don't think you can learn to tap dance in three weeks at my ripe old age. ↗

— Huey Lewis

#dance #i #learn #old #old age

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

— David Mamet

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Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement. ↗

— Dwight L. Moody

#become #begin #empty #filled #later

Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age. ↗

— Sinclair Lewis

#may #old #old age #orator #poet