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Quotations
On Age
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- No
wise
man ever wished to be
younger.—Swift.
- I
venerate
old age; and I love
not the man who can look without emotion upon the sunset of life, when
the dusk of evening begins to gather over the watery eye, and the
shadows
of twilight grow broader and deeper upon the understanding.—Longfellow.
- It is
only
necessary to grow
old to become more indulgent. I see no fault committed that I have not
committed myself.—Goethe.
- That
which
is usually called
dotage is not the weak point of all old men, but only of such as are
distinguished
by their levity.—Cicero.
- We
must
not take the faults
of our youth into our old age; for old age brings with it its own
defects.—Goethe.
Learn to
live well,
or fairly make your will;
You've
play'd, and lov'd,
and ate, and drank your fill;
Walk sober
off, before
a sprightlier age
Comes
titt'ring on, and
shoves you from the stage.
—Pope.
- If
wrinkles must be written
upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit
should
not grow old.—James A. Garfield.
- Forty
is
the old age of youth;
fifty is the youth of old age.—Victor Hugo.
- Remember
that some of the brightest
drops in the chalice of life may still remain for us in old age. The
last
draught which a kind Providence gives us to drink, though near the
bottom
of the cup, may, as is said of the draught of the Roman of old, have at
the very bottom, instead of dregs, most costly pearls.—W.A. Newman.
- Begin
to
patch up thine old
body for heaven.—Shakespeare.
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- Few
people
know how to be old.—La
Rochefoucauld.
- When
men
grow virtuous in their
old age, they are merely making a sacrifice to God of the devil's
leavings.—Swift.
- The
defects of the mind, like
those of the countenance, increase with age.—La Rochefoucauld.
- He who
would pass the declining
years of his life with honor and comfort, should when young, consider
that
he may one day become old, and remember, when he is old, that he has
once
been young.—Addison.
- Winter,
which strips the leaves
from around us, makes us see the distant regions they formerly
concealed;
so does old age rob us of our enjoyments, only to enlarge the prospect
of eternity before us.—Richter.
- The
easiest thing for our friends
to discover in us, and the hardest thing for us to discover in
ourselves,
is that we are growing old.—H.W. Shaw.
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