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Old Age Quotes

Old age is the harbor of all ills.

"Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers". Book by Diogenes Laërtius, Book 4: The Academy, 47, c. 200 A.D..

Old age is by nature rather talkative.

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Cyrus R. Edmonds (1863). “Three Books of Offices; Or, Moral Duties: Also His Cato Major, an Essay on Old Age; Laelius, an Essay on Friendship; Paradoxes; Scipio's Dream; and Letter to Quintus on the Duties of a Magistrate. Literally Translated, with Notes, Designed to Exhibit a Comparative View of the Opinions of Cicero, and Those of Modern Moralists and Ethical Philosophers”, p.242

Old age is second childhood.

Nubes ( The Clouds), l.1417.

Old age, after all, is merely the punishment for having lived.

"Drawn and Quartered". Book by Emil Cioran, 1983.

Old age is life's parody.

Simone de Beauvoir (1972). “La vieillesse”

nobody ever intends to be old.

Marie Corelli (19??). “Jane: A Social Incident”, p.27, Health Research Books

Old age is the repose of life; the rest that precedes the rest that remains.

Robert Collyer (1871). “The life that now is, sermons”, p.303

Old age is somewhat like dieting. Every day there is less of us to be observed.

Doris Grumbach (2014). “Fifty Days of Solitude: A Memoir”, p.9, Open Road Media

Maybe I'll be a feminist in my old age.

"Maybe I'll be a feminist in my old age" by Liz Hoggard, www.theguardian.com. March 12, 2005.