#old age

Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity. ↗

— Geoffrey Chaucer

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Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought. ↗

— Emily Dickinson

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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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The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

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In my old age, I'll be in L.A. ↗

— David Hockney

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

— Hesiod

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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

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Old age is fifteen years older than I am. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

— Joseph Addison

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Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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