"Old age is like everything else. To..." - Quote by Theodore Roosevelt
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
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“Alas, how right the ancient saying is: We, who are old, are nothing else but noise And shape. Like mimicries of dreams we go, And have no wits, although we think us wise.”
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“When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.”
“In particular I may mention Sophocles the poet, who was once asked in my presence, How do you feel about love, Sophocles? are you still capable of it? to which he replied, Hush! if you please: to my great delight I have escaped from it, and feel as if I had escaped from a frantic and savage master. I thought then, as I do now, that he spoke wisely. For unquestionably old age brings us profound repose and freedom from this and other passions.”
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