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Old age Quotes

Old age invites reflection, humor, and gratitude, and the voices gathered in these quotations offer perspectives as varied as life itself. From wisdom earned through years to the gentle acceptance of change, they illuminate courage, tenderness, and the art of letting go. Whether you seek comfort, clarity, or a spark of inspiration, these lines celebrate living well at every stage, honoring both quiet resilience and bright memory. May they prompt conversation, kindle empathy, and remind us that growing older is both ordinary and remarkable.
Small: Advice in old age is foolish for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the near
Cicero
"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"
Cicero, Philosopher
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Small: Old age is no place for sissies
Bette Davis
"Old age is no place for sissies"
Bette Davis, Actress
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Small: Education is the best provision for old age
Aristotle
"Education is the best provision for old age"
Aristotle, Philosopher
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Small: You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children
Judith Viorst
"You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned"
Judith Viorst, Author
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Small: Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age
Aristotle
"Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age"
Aristotle, Philosopher
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Small: Many believe - and I believe - that I have been designated for this work by God. In spite of my old age, I do
Michelangelo
"Many believe - and I believe - that I have been designated for this work by God. In spite of my old age, I do not want to give it up; I work out of love for God and I put all my hope in Him"
Michelangelo, Artist
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Small: The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured
Cicero
"The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured"
Cicero, Philosopher
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Small: All diseases run into one, old age
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"All diseases run into one, old age"
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher
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Small: The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm
Aldous Huxley
"The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm"
Aldous Huxley, Novelist
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Small: Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought
Emily Dickinson
"Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought"
Emily Dickinson, Poet
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Small: Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once youre aboard, theres nothing you can do
"Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do"
Golda Meir, Leader
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Small: Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age
"Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age"
Hosea Ballou, Clergyman
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Small: How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete
C. S. Lewis
"How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete"
C. S. Lewis, Author
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Small: Old age is the verdict of life
Amelia Barr
"Old age is the verdict of life"
Amelia Barr, Novelist
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Small: Besides, wouldnt it be wonderful if no one ever had to worry about the random cruelty of fatal illness or the
"Besides, wouldn't it be wonderful if no one ever had to worry about the random cruelty of fatal illness or the woes of old age attacking them or their loved ones?"
Joan D. Vinge, Author
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Small: Old age is not a disease - it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappo
"Old age is not a disease - it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses"
Maggie Kuhn, Activist
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Small: Rashness belongs to youth prudence to old age
Cicero
"Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age"
Cicero, Philosopher
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Small: Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, youve got to start young
Theodore Roosevelt
"Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young"
Theodore Roosevelt, President
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Small: What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of ones faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of o
W. Somerset Maugham
"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, Playwright
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Small: Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man
Leon Trotsky
"Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man"
Leon Trotsky, Revolutionary
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Small: Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts old age is slow in both
Joseph Addison
"Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both"
Joseph Addison, Writer
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Small: Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age
Walter Savage Landor
"Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age"
Walter Savage Landor, Poet
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Small: We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation o
Pearl S. Buck
"We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave"
Pearl S. Buck, Novelist
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Small: To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am
"To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am"
Bernard Baruch, Businessman
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Small: Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man
"Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man"
Felix Frankfurter, Judge
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Small: It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is lifes parody, whereas death t
"It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time"
Simone de Beauvoir, Writer
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Small: Have regular hours for work and play make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the
"Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success"
Louisa May Alcott, Novelist
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Small: To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age
"To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age"
Amos Bronson Alcott, Educator
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Small: Old age isnt so bad when you consider the alternative
"Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative"
Maurice Chevalier, Actor
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Small: Old age is, so to speak, the sanctuary of ills: they all take refuge in it
Antiphanes
"Old age is, so to speak, the sanctuary of ills: they all take refuge in it"
Antiphanes, Writer
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Small: Old age and the passage of time teach all things
Sophocles
"Old age and the passage of time teach all things"
Sophocles, Author
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Small: Not even old age knows how to love death
Sophocles
"Not even old age knows how to love death"
Sophocles, Author
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Small: Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long
W. Somerset Maugham
"Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long"
W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright
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Small: Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth
W. Somerset Maugham
"Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth"
W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright
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Small: Old age is fifteen years older than I am
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
"Old age is fifteen years older than I am"
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Poet
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Small: Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in hi
Søren Kierkegaard
"Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate"
Søren Kierkegaard, Philosopher
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Small: It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into m
"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, Scientist
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Small: Save your money. Youre going to need twice as much money in your old age as you think
"Save your money. You're going to need twice as much money in your old age as you think"
Michael Caine, Actor
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Small: Just call me a family man and an actor who digs his whole scene, side interests and all. Just say I feel might
"Just call me a family man and an actor who digs his whole scene, side interests and all. Just say I feel mighty good at the ripe old age of 27"
Bobby Darin, Musician
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Small: In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us
"In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us"
Beverly Sills, Musician
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