(269 quotes found)
“All would live long; but none would be old”
Benjamin Franklin
“We do not stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing!”
“Old age is fifteen years older than I am.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes
“Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age, and to imagine right up to the brink of death that life is only beginning. I think that is the only way to keep adding to one's talent, and one's inner happiness.”
George Sand
“Those are opportunistic organisms that attack stressed trees. The cause of death is old age and other environmental factors. This tree has reached its lifespan: anywhere between 150 and 200 years in this area of the country. We estimate the tree to be between 150 and 175 years old.”
Vincent Simeone
“When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.”
Contributed by: Randi
Mark Twain
“The counsels of old age give light without heat, like the sun in winter.”
Vauvenargues Marquis de
“Old age is, so to speak, the sanctuary of ills: they all take refuge in it.”
Antiphanes
“Old age is the verdict of life.”
Amelia E. Barr
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