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    The crucial task of old age is balance: keeping just well enough, just brave enough, just gay and interested and starkly honest enough to remain a sentient human being.

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Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing read more

Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.

by Maggie Kuhn Found in: Age Quotes, Old age Quotes,
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Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

by Cato The Elder Found in: Age Quotes,
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Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.

Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.

by Alexander Hamilton Found in: Age Quotes,
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Age--that period of life in which we compound for the vices that we still cherish by reviling those that we read more

Age--that period of life in which we compound for the vices that we still cherish by reviling those that we no longer have the enterprise to commit.

by Ambrose Bierce Found in: Age Quotes,
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With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. (Merchant Of Venice)

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. (Merchant Of Venice)

by William Shakespeare Found in: Age Quotes,
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I refuse to admit I'm more than fifty-two, even if that does make my sons illegitimate.

I refuse to admit I'm more than fifty-two, even if that does make my sons illegitimate.

by Lady Astor Found in: Age Quotes,
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For oute of olde feldys, as men sey,
Comyth al this newe corn from yere to yere;
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For oute of olde feldys, as men sey,
Comyth al this newe corn from yere to yere;
And out of old bokis, in good fey,
Comyth al this newe science that men lere.

by Geoffrey Chaucer Found in: Age Quotes,
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Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age.rn

Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age.rn

by Lactantius Firmianus Found in: Age Quotes,
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We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

by George Bernard Shaw Found in: Age Quotes,
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