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How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.


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How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
C. S. LEWIS How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
C.S. LEWIS But with what incessant and grievous ills is old age surrounded!
UNKNOWN Old age is, so to speak, the sanctuary of ills: they all take refuge in it.
ANTIPHANES ANTIPHANES Old age is, so to speak, the sanctuary of ills: they all take refuge in it.
ANTIPHANES Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife; This simple boon I beg of Fate -...
CAROLYN WELLS Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife; This simple boon I beg of Fate -...
CAROLYN WELLS Some social ills are preserved by the common misbelief that things such as ignorance, greed, and stu...
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA You are not the happy, unthinking child you have always appeared to be, accepting everything at its ...
AGATHA CHRISTIE Death is not evil, for it frees man from all ills and takes away his desires along with desire's rew...
GIACOMO LEOPARDI Age isn't how old you are but how old you feel.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Dying while you are young is a great boon in your old age.
SEBASTIAN TRABISH Daring to dream is not difficult, it's making them come true that is hard...
NANETTE L. AVERY Age is not how old you are, but how many years of fun you’ve had.
MATT MALDRE I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES That folly of old age which is called dotage is peculiar to silly old men, not to age itself.
UNKNOWN It doesn't matter how old people are. It matters if they love each other and have fun with each ...
NINA HAGEN I'm a thinker. That is what I do, in great depth and detail, every waking moment of the day. I like ...
BRIAN HERBERT Unification of differences is power.
SHESH NATH VERNWAL Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom.
PLATO Children are a great comfort in your old age - and they help you reach it faster, too.
LIONEL KAUFFMAN Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all ...
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness; and reverence towards the Gods must be inviolate. Great wor...
SOPHOCLES Children are a great comfort to us in our old age, and they help us reach it faster too.
SOURCE UNKNOWN Whenever you are fed up with life, start writing: ink is the great cure for all human ills, as I hav...
C.S. LEWIS History is replete with blunders written by sycophants.
TOMICHAN MATHEIKAL It is not well to make great changes in old age.
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON It is not well to make great changes in old age.
CHARLES H. SPURGEON Obedience is bondage, if God wants to be adored he should make himself more loving.
LAURA WHITCOMB If thinking is your fate, revere this fate with divine honour and sacrifice to it the best, the most...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Immature thought is predominately purposive and utopian. Thought which rejects purpose altogether is...
EDWARD HALLETT CARR Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM Old age isn't a battle; old age is a massacre.
PHILIP ROTH How young can you die of old age?
STEVEN WRIGHT Why do people talk of the horrors of old age? It's great. I feel like a fine old car with the parts ...
MARTHA GELLHORN How young can you die of old age?
STEPHEN WRIGHT How can the moribund old man reason back to himself the romance, the mystery, the imminence of great...
WILLIAM JAMES Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.
HOSEA BALLOU Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.
VICTOR HUGO Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age.
VICTOR HUGO Gentlemen, be courteous to the old maids, no matter how poor and plain and prim, for the only chival...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT I have read that smallpox is not very communicable at all, and that conditions in which it's spread ...
LEON HARRIS No one delights more in vengeance than a woman. Juvenal, Satires, XIII.
JUVENAL SATIRES THE 13TH Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
VICTOR HUGO Old wine and friends improve with age.
ITALIAN PROVERB The Bible is replete with commands to persevere, especially in the face of injustice.
JONI EARECKSON TADA 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...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Those who are born of parents broken with old age, or of such as are not yet ripe or are too young, ...
THOMAS WILLIS It doesn't matter what age you are. You can look sexy and feel great, and that doesn't have ...
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GARLAND HUNT Interdependent Thinking is a true system view of the world.
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CYRIL CONNOLLY Indeed, the field of Holocaust studies is replete with nonsense if not sheer fraud.
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MARK TWAIN Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with t...
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EDITH WHARTON We don't have a single point at which a person becomes old. People are able to be productive far bey...
KATHRYN KAYE You're such a young king. I barely remember being your age."
"Then clearly we're talking about ...
JENNIFER A. NIELSEN Half the ills we heard within our hearts are ills because we hoard them.
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CHANAKYA I don't buy this thing that our industry is responsible for all the ills of the world. We have g...
JAMIE DIMON The Autumn is old; The sere leaves are flying; He hath gather'd up gold, And now he is d...
THOMAS HOOD History is replete with examples of tech firms that were marginalized by new companies and technolog...
BARRY RITHOLTZ There's that old journalism rule that sunshine is the great disinfectant - which is how reporter...
J. R. MOEHRINGER Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb,...
ROBERT BURTON Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb,...
ROBERT BROWNING Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and clim...
ROBERT BURTON Why do people talk of the horrors of old age? It's great. I feel like a fine old car with the pa...
MARTHA GELLHORN Old age is a shipwreck.
CHARLES DE GAULLE Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be ...
J.K. ROWLING Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be ...
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TEKOA MANNING An explanation of an old man’s mistakes. For I see now that what I have done, and not done, with r...
J.K. ROWLING A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.
PINDAR A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality
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C.S. LEWIS It is not how old you are, but how you are old.
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J.K. ROWLING That sign of old age, extolling the past at the expense of the present
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And toss them on the wheels of Chance.
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JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) You are not to do evil that good may come of it. [Lat., Non faciat malum, ut inde veniat bonum.]
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JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure. [Lat., Voluptates commendat rarior usus.]
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JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) It is difficult not to write satire. [Lat., Difficile est satiram non scribere.]
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JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) With thumb turned. [Lat., Verso pollice.]
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JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) A lucky man is rarer than a white crow. [Lat., Felix ille tamen corvo quoque rarior albo.]
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JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) Go, madman! rush over the wildest Alps, that you may please children and be made the subject of de...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) Everything is Greek, when it is more shameful to be ignorant of Latin. [Lat., Omnia Graece! C...
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JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) What is more cruel than a tyrant's ear? [Lat., Quid violentius aure tyranni?]
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) The tongue is the vile slave's vilest part. [Lat., Lingua mali pars pessima servi.]
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) To eat at another's table is your ambition's height. [Lat., Bona summa putes, aliena vivere quadra...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) Bid the hungry Greek go to heaven, he will go. [Lat., Graeculus esuriens in coelum, jusseris, ibit...
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