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Old Age Quotes
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Nobody loves life like an old man.
Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and dying as on a battlefield.
Age in a virtuous person, of either sex, carries in it an authority which makes it preferable to all the pleasures of youth.
A kind of second childhood falls on so many men. They trade their violence for the promise of a small increase of life span. In effect, the head of the house becomes the youngest child.
If a man lives to any considerable age, it can not be denied that he laments his imprudences, but I notice he often laments his youth a deal more bitterly and with a more genuine intonation.
Old men and comets have been reverenced for the same reason: their long beards, and pretences to foretell events.
It is the common vice of all, in old age, to be too intent upon our interests.
Medical science has oppressed us with a new huge burden of longevity. It is in that last undesired decade, when passion is cold, appetites feeble, curiosity dulled and experience has begotten cynicism, that accidia lies in wait as the final temptation to destruction.
Drawn to childhood, the old man will seek it in a thousand different ways.
An aged man is but a paltry thing, A tattered coat upon a stick, unless Soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing For every tatter in its mortal dress.
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Few people know what they mean when they say, "I love you." ... Well, what does the word love mean? It means total interest. I think the reason very few people really fall in love with anyone is they're not willing to pay the price. The price is you have to adjust yourself to them.
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The time we waste trying to find out what life is all about could be spent loving someone and finding out.
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Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
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