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Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.
Pearl S. Buck

Fear, Society, Young

An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.
Bill Vaughan

Year, Until, Sure

The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Age, Blessing, Abundance

Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Good, Bad, Advice

How far away the stars seem, and how far is our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart.
William Butler Yeats

Heart, Away, Stars

Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.
Andre Maurois

Time, Bad, Busy

As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost.
Margaret Mead

Parents, Long, Lost

Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Life, Age, Play

I didn't want to become some embittered old hack getting his revenge for the rest of my life. And I didn't want to become some scared creature cowering in a corner. I remember telling myself not to carry the hatred around, although I know where it is. I have it in a trunk in storage.
Salman Rushdie

Life, Revenge, Remember

Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.
Douglas MacArthur

Die, Away, Soldiers

Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Love, Good, Bad

There's one more terrifying fact about old people: I'm going to be one soon.
P. J. O'Rourke

Fact, Soon, Terrifying

Your days are short here; this is the last of your springs. And now in the serenity and quiet of this lovely place, touch the depths of truth, feel the hem of Heaven. You will go away with old, good friends. And don't forget when you leave why you came.
Adlai E. Stevenson

Good, Truth, Forget

I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
John Cage

Understand, Why, Ideas

No one should ever sit in this office over 70 years old, and that I know.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

I won't quit to become someone's old lady.
Janis Joplin

Someone, Become, Won

Fake is as old as the Eden tree.
Orson Welles

Fake, Tree, Eden

It's no good trying to keep up old friendships. It's painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it.
W. Somerset Maugham

Good, Trying, Keep

How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
John Burroughs

Beautiful, Light, Last

Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.
Francis Bacon

Age, Men, Young

A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.
Miguel de Unamuno

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.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Love, Age, Dead

I cried on my 18th birthday. I thought 17 was such a nice age. You're young enough to get away with things, but you're old enough, too.
Liv Tyler

Age, Birthday, Nice

Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always makes you less than you are.
Malcolm Forbes

Makes, Getting, Less

Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Men, Playing, Grow

Admittedly, a homosexual can be conditioned to react sexually to a woman, or to an old boot for that matter. In fact, both homo - and heterosexual experimental subjects have been conditioned to react sexually to an old boot, and you can save a lot of money that way.
William S. Burroughs

Money, Woman, Matter

Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses.
Robert Burton

Friends, Small, Become

Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Age, Youth, Prudence

Many believe - and I believe - that I have been designated for this work by God. In spite of my old age, I do not want to give it up; I work out of love for God and I put all my hope in Him.
Michelangelo

Love, Work, Age

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