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Old age is a woman's hell


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CHARLES WILLIAMS Old age is a shipwreck.
CHARLES DE GAULLE 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 Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
VICTOR HUGO Old age ain't no place for sissies.
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN Hell is full of good intentions. [Sp., El infierno es lleno de buenas intenciones.]
THOMAS GRAY Hell is full of good intentions. [Sp., El infierno es lleno de buenas intenciones.]
HORACE GREELEY Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.
SINCLAIR LEWIS Whatever poet, orator, or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Hell is other people.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Hell is paved with priests' skulls.
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UNKNOWN Who knew that the path to a womans heart was through the soul of an honest man?
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SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Hell is empty and all the devils are here.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Old age is just a record of one's whole life.
MUHAMMAD ALI Youth is a blunder, manhood is a struggle and old age a regret.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI a poverty-ridden old age.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT To me - old age is always ten years older than I am.
JOHN BURROUGHS It is easy to become a monk in one's old age
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LARRY MCMURTRY The counsels of old age give light without heat, like the sun in winter.
VAUVENARGUES MARQUIS DE What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.
JEAN PAUL RICHTER A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality
PINDAR We are not limited by our old age; we are liberated by it
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AMELIA E. BARR Old age is no place for sissies.
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MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young.
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ARISTOTLE Old age though despised, is coveted by all.
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PETER UTLEY Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.
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OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND The one thing that you simply have to remember all the time that you are there, is that Hollywood is...
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND I feel like a survivor from an age that people no longer understand. I want to try to explain what t...
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND I felt 'Gone with the Wind' would last five years, and it's lasted over 70 and into a ne...
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND If I watch 'Gone With the Wind,' I always find it interesting. I think, 'What's goin...
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