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| När jag var ung trodde jag att pengar var det viktigastei livet; nu när jag är gammal, vet jag att det är så. | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
| Varje gång jag tänker på att jag blir äldre, och gradvis går i graven, händer nånting annat. | Elvis Presley (1935-1977) |
| To remain young one must change. The perpetual campus hero is not a young man but an old boy. | Alexander Chase |
| Old men are dangerous it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world | George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) |
| Old age means realizing you will never own all the dogs you wanted to | Joe Gores (1937-) |
| 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 | John Webster (1580-1632) |
| You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned. | Judith Viorst (1931-) |
| In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived. | Knut Hamsun (1859-1952) |
| The answer to old age is to keep one's mind busy and to go on with one's life as if it were interminable. I always admired Chekhov for building a new house when he was dying of tuberculosis. | Leon Edel (1907-) |
| Sure I'm for helping the elderly. I'm going to be old myself someday. | Lillian Carter (1898-1983) |
| The older I get, the more I believe in what I can't explain or understand, even more than the things that are explainable and understandable. | Lillian Gish (1896-1993) |
| Never let them see you in public after you've turned thirty-five. You're finished if you do! | Norma Shearer (1900-1983) |
| Old age is - a lot of crossed off names in an address book | Ronald Blythe |
| When you get real old, honey, you realizre there are certain things that just don't matter anymore. You lay it all on the table. There's a saying: Only little children and old folks tell the truth. | Sarah Louise Delany |
| How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are? | Satchel Paige (1906-1982) |
| In old age, one should do something monumental | Xiao Qian |
| When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong. | Arthur C. Clarke (1917-) |
| When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity - but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial. | Eugene O'Neill |
| As you grow older, you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don't you forget it - whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes | Harper Lee (1926-) |
| The land of fairy, where nobody gets old and godly and grave, where nobody gets old and crafty and wise, where nobody gets old and bitter of tongue. | William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) |
| The older you get, the tougher it is to lose weight because by then, your body and your fat are really good friends | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
| You know you're getting old when you look at a beautiful 19-year-old girl and you find yourself thinking, "Gee, I wonder what her mother looks like | Dale E. Turner (1956-) |
| Why is it that, as we grow older, we are so reluctant to change? It is not so much that new ideas are painful, for they are not. It is that old ideas are seldom entirely false, but have truth, great truth in them. The justification for conservatism i | Dale E. Turner (1956-) |
| I'll tell 'ya how to stay young: Hang around with older people | Bob Hope (1903-2003) |
| I heard the old, old, men say "all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters | William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) |
| To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual whose day will soon be over, but part of the stream of life flowing on from the first germ to the remote and unknown future. | Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) |
| In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us. | Beverly Sills (1929-) |
| The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty | Napoleon Hill (1883-1970) |
| Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing. | Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) |
| Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator. | Konfucius (555 f.Kr.-479 f.Kr.) |
| Too many people grow up. That's the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up. They forget. They don't remember what it's like to be 12 years old. They patronize, they treat children as inferiors. Well I won't do that. | Walt Disney (1901-1966) |
| The old gray mare just ain't what she used to be | Proverb |
| Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant with the weak and the wrong. Sometime in your life you will have been all of these. | Dr. Robert H. Goddard (1882-1945) |
| Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask thy father, and he will shew thee; thy elders, and they will tell thee | Bible |
| There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent | Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) |
| Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age; and if you understand that old age has wisdom for its food, you will so conduct yourself in youth that your old age will not lack for nourishment. | Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) |
| The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened. | Hector Hugh Munro (Saki) (1870-1916) |
| How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are? | Satchel Paige (1906-1982) |
| Old men must die, or the word would grow moldy, would only breed the past again | Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) |
| Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate. | Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) |
| Old age is a shipwreck. | Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970) |
| Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle-aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite of his troubles. | Donald Marquis (1878-1937) |
| Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself-a lad of about 19 | E. B. White (1899-1985) |
| Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought. | Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) |
| The old ox plows a straight furrow | English Proverb |
| Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now. | Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966) |
| Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read. | Francis Bacon, Sr. (1561-1626) |
| It (The New York Times) reads like it was edited by two elderly sociologists, one of whom has been dead for many years | Garrison Keillor (1942-) |
| Old men are dangerous it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world | George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) |
| Old places and old persons in their turn, when spirit dwells in them, have an intrinsic vitality of which youth is incapable, precisely, the balance and wisdom that come from long perspectives and broad foundations | George Santayana (1863-1952) |
| Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do. | Golda Meir (1898-1978) |
| Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this. | Golda Meir (1898-1978) |
| 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. | Joseph Addison (1672-1719) |
| The older I get, the more I believe in what I can't explain or understand, even more than the things that are explainable and understandable. | Lillian Gish (1896-1993) |
| An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick, unless Soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing for every tatter in its mortal dress | William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) |
| An old man is twice a child. | William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |
| What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories | William Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) |