550 Quotes About Old-age
- Author Mary-Jean Harris
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Eldora smiled up at Paulo cunningly, her dark eyes twinkling. “You are old, Father.”“Not as old as I shall be, before I have finished with the universe.
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- Author Ljupka Cvetanova
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I would die for you, my love—in old age.
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- Author Lorena McCourtney
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I wrapped my hands around the familiar cup and tried to draw strength from it. It was from Thea's old Moss Rose set, remnant of careful scrimping and saving in her first year of marriage. Yet the mellow old cup now brought me no comfort, only a feeling of helplessness, of time slipping away. Sunday-best dishes gone to everyday and now to mismatched pieces. Like Thea and me
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- Author Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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Stupidity is most often concealed by education, fame, adulthood, beauty, affluence, popularity, sexiness, old age, authority, and a suit.
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- Author Picazo Basha
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It's not that we stop working when we get old, but we get old when we stop working.
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- Author Karl Ove Knausgård
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Old age. All the facial detail is visible; all the traces life has left there are to be seen. The face is furrowed, wrinkled, sagging, ravaged by time. But the eyes are bright and, if not young, then somehow transcend the time that otherwise marks the face. It is as though someone else is looking at us, from somewhere inside the face, where everything is different. One can hardly be closer to another human soul.
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- Author Amit Kalantri
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Old ones should respect the energy of youths and youths should respect the experience of old ones.
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- Author Israelmore Ayivor
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With great abilities come great responsibilities; great power comes with great assignments.With great age comes great reasoning; great actions come great experience.With great battles come great victories; great trees come with great tap roots.However, if a little faith can move great mountains, what then will a great faith do? Mysterious things... I guess
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- Author Herbert Hoover
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Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die.
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