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Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.
When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures.
In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived.
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.
When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
It's not the same thing to make a work - a film, a book, a play - about youth as it is to make one about old age.
Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.
There is always some chance of recession in any year. But the evidence suggests that expansions don't die of old age.
I can have a career right into my old age, creating music in some way. It seems like a lovely way to go through life.
Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.
Not everything in old age is grim. I haven't walked through an airport for years, and wheelchairs are the way to travel.
The price of indulging yourself in your youth in the things you cannot afford is poverty and dependence in your old age.
I think my fans will follow me into our combined old age. Real musicians and real fans stay together for a long, long time.
I don't know what's happened to me. I've got a bit more sophisticated in my old age. I like a bit of jasmine tea. I love it.
The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.
What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.
Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.
You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.
Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself - a lad of about 19.
As we grow up, either we lose people or have a lot of them around us. I have seen many people who are isolated in their old age.
I think God just died of old age. And, when I realized that he wasn't any more, it didn't shock me. It seemed natural and right!
There is a quiet about the life of a farmer, and the hope of a serene old age, that no other business or profession can promise.
In my old age, my mind gets more open, and I listen to so many different types of music and I guess that all reflects in my work.
I'm a very rigorous person. I like to take exercise. People get mired in old age, they get bent and twisted, but I can stop that.
My problem isn't death but old age. I fret about my lack of balance, my buckling knee, my difficulty standing up and sitting down.
My mother enjoyed old age, and because of her I've begun to enjoy parts of it too. So far I've had it good and am crumbling nicely.
We do ourselves and others a disservice when we make old age something to be feared...The longer we live, the more life we possess.
Football in Italy is like a wonderful sickness, because people are infected with this love for the sport from childhood to old age.
Yes, I am Canadian, having sailed here from England on a Russian boat called the Alexander Pushkin when I was the ripe old age of 4.
In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.
Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife; This simple boon I beg of Fate - A thousand years of Middle Life.
Lack of education, old age, bad health or discrimination - these are causes of poverty, and the way to attack it is to go to the root.
I only seek in my old age to perfect that which I had not before thoroughly learned in my youth, because my sins were a hindrance to me.
One good reason for writing novels based on your life is that you have something to read in old age when you've forgotten what happened.
The wonderful thing about modern medicine is that so many of these complaints that used to signify old age and decline can be coped with.
Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.
A newspaper is lumber made malleable. It is ink made into words and pictures. It is conceived, born, grows up and dies of old age in a day.
I thought I'd live to a ripe old age, because I always felt there was a lot to do. I had a driven feeling. I always thought in the present.
Old age is not a disease - it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.
Both my parents developed dementia in their old age. Everyone I know whose parents had dementia feel that they didn't deal with it very well.
To be old is to be part of a huge and ordinary multitude... the reason why old age was venerated in the past was because it was extraordinary.
Just call me a family man and an actor who digs his whole scene, side interests and all. Just say I feel mighty good at the ripe old age of 27.
I am involved in a lot of nonprofits. And when I reached the ripe old age of 60, I wanted to provide leadership to some I had been involved in.
I was always proud of being tough-minded, and I think I still am, but in my old age I've got a little softer in the head, and that's all right.
Most 'Monty Python' fans are, of course, baby boomers, who have long been a nostalgic lot and are growing more so as they totter toward old age.
I think repeating yourself is a sign of old age, telling the same joke again and again. Especially if they're jokes that don't make people laugh.
Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.
Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.
My life, I realize suddenly, is July. Childhood is June, and old age is August, but here it is, July, and my life, this year, is July inside of July.