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Much has seen said of the wisdom of old age. Old age is wise, I grant, for itself, but not wise for the community. It is wise in declining new enterprises, for it has not the power nor the time to execute them; wise in shrinking from difficulty, for it has not the strength to overcome it; wise in avoiding danger, for it lacks the faculty of ready and swift action, by which dangers are parried and converted into advantages. But this is not wisdom for mankind at large, by whom new enterprises must be undertaken, dangers met, and difficulties surmounted. - William Cullen Bryant If you live to the age of a hundred, you have it made because very few people die past the age of a hundred. - George Burns Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative. - Maurice Chevalier Old Age, a second child, by nature curst With more and greater evils than the first, Weak, sickly, full of pains: in ev'ry breath Railing at life, and yet afraid of death. - Charles Churchill Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth. - Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) (often called "Tully" for short) The happiest end of life is this: when the mind and the other senses being unimpaired, the same nature which put it together takes asunder her own work. - Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) (often called "Tully" for short) Old age is the repose of life; the rest that precedes the rest that remains. - Robert Collyer You will know you're old when you cease to be amazed. - Noel Coward, said to Glenn Ford Old age ain't no place for sissies. - Bette Davis Old age is when the liver spots show through your gloves. - Phyllis Diller You know you're old if they have discontinued your blood type. - Phyllis Diller Age, like woman, requires fit surroundings. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle. - Edna Ferber Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man. - Justice Felix Frankfurter The day of life spent in honest and benevolent labor comes in hope to an evening calm and lovely; and though the sun declines, the shadows that he leaves behind are only to curtain the spirit unto rest. - Henry Giles The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty. - Napoleon Hill When he is forsaken, Withered and shaken, What can an old man do but die? - Thomas Hood It is a characteristic of old age to find the progress of time accelerated. The less one accomplishes in a given time, the shorter does the retrospect appear. - Wilhelm von Humboldt After a man passes sixty, his mischief is mainly in his head. - Washington Irving At length weariness succeeds to labor, and the mind lies at ease in the contemplation of her own attainments without any desire of new conquests or excursions. This is the age of recollection and narrative; the opinions are settled, and the avenues of apprehension shut against any new intelligence; the days that are to follow must pass in the inculcation of precepts already collected, and assertion of tenets already received; nothing is henceforward so odious as opposition, so insolent as doubt, or so dangerous as novelty. - Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature") Old age deprives the intelligent man only of qualities useless to wisdom. - Joseph Joubert The evening of a well spent life brings its lamps with it. - Joseph Joubert The fears of old age disturb us, yet how few attain it? - Jean de la Bruyere It is indeed the boundary of life, beyond which we are not to pass; which the law of nature has pitched for a limit not to be exceeded. - Michel Eyquem de Montaigne The second childhood of a saint is the early infancy of a happy immortality, as we believe. - William Mountford (1) Displaying page 1 of 2 for this topic: Next >> [1] 2
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