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One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up. - Malcolm Muggeridge When we are young, we are slavishly employed in procuring something whereby we may live comfortably when we grow old; and when we are old, we perceive it is too late to live as we proposed. - Alexander Pope It is after you have lost your teeth that you can afford to buy steaks. - Pierre Auguste Renoir Now, settle down, settle down. Hell, I'm an old man, it's early in the morning and I'm gathering my thoughts here. - Donald Rumsfeld Old places and old persons in their turn, when spirit dwells in them, have an intrinsic vitality of which youth is incapable, precisely, the balance and wisdom that come from long perspectives and broad foundations. - George Santayana My God! my time is in Thine hands. Should it please Thee to lengthen my life, and complete, as Thou hast begun, the work of blanching my locks, grant me grace to wear them as a crown of unsullied honor. - Christian Scriver (used pseudonym Gotthold) They say, an old man is twice a child. - William Shakespeare 'Tis our fast intent To shake all cares and business from our age, Conferring them on younger strengths, while we Unburden'd crawl toward death. - William Shakespeare Old men are dangerous it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world. - George Bernard Shaw That sign of old age, extolling the past at the expense of the present. - Sydney Smith I'll never make the mistake of being seventy again. - Casey Stengel (Charles Dillon Stengel) Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death. - Walt Whitman Displaying page 2 of 2 for this topic: << Prev 1 [2]
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