Quotes about Old age

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What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease. — Jean Paul
One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave. — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age. — Hosea Ballou
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
Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week. — Louis Kronenberger
When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality. — Muriel Spark
Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative. — Maurice Chevalier
Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young. — Dorothy Canfield Fisher
The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet wit — Bob Wells
Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the — Ira Gershwin
Most women are indulgent of themselves. This is a mistake. It should be only the reward of old age. — Anna Held
There is always some chance of recession in any year. But the evidence suggests that expansions don't die of old age. — Janet Yellen
I am involved in a lot of nonprofits. And when I reached the ripe old age of 60, I wanted to provide leadership to some — David Rubenstein
The public has lost faith in the ability of Social Security and Medicare to provide for old age. They've lost faith in t — Ron Chernow
Not everything in old age is grim. I haven't walked through an airport for years, and wheelchairs are the way to travel. — Donald Hall