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“Education is the best provision for old age.”
Aristotle
“Old fools are babes again.”
William Shakespeare
“When saving for old age, be sure to put away a few pleasant thoughts.”
Proverb
“Well enough for old folks to rise early, because they have done so many mean things all their lives they can't sleep anyhow.”
Mark Twain
“Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old-fashioned quite suddenly”
Oscar Wilde
“Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age.”
“I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.”
Francis Bacon Sr.
“If youth but had the knowledge and old age the strength.”
French Proverb
“Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age; and if you understand that old age has wisdom for its food, you will so conduct yourself in youth that your old age will not lack for nourishment.”
Leonardo da Vinci
“A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.”
Robertson Davies