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Elderly

«In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.»
Author: Beverly Sills | About: Elderly, Youth | Keywords: run into
«In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the passing, we have arrived.»
Author: Knut Hamsun (Dramatist, Novelist, Poet) | About: Elderly | Keywords: arrived, batch, letters
«In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.»
Author: Pope Paul VI (Pope) | About: Elderly, Youth
«How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?»
Author: Satchel Paige | About: Elderly
«In old age, one should do something monumental»
Author: Xiao Qian | About: Elderly | Keywords: monumental
«In the old days villains had moustaches and kicked the dog. Audiences are smarter today. They don't want their villain to be thrown at them with green limelight on his face. They want an ordinary human being with failings.»
«I'll tell 'ya how to stay young: Hang around with older people»
Author: Bob Hope (Actor, Comedian) | About: Elderly, Youth | Keywords: hang, hang around
«Is not old wine wholesomest, old pippins toothsomest, old wood burns brightest, old linen wash whitest? Old soldiers, sweetheart, are surest, and old lovers are soundest»
«Humor keeps the elderly rolling along, singing a song. When you laugh, it?s an involuntary explosion of the lungs. The lungs need to replenish themselves with oxygen. So you laugh, you breathe, the blood runs, and everything is circulating. If you don?t laugh, you?ll die.»
«He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.»
Author: Joseph Addison (Dramatist, Essayist, Poet, Statesman) | About: Elderly | Keywords: declining

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