Old age is, so to speak, the sanctuary of ills: they all take refuge in it.


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Old age is, so to speak, the sanctuary of ills: they all take refuge in it.
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The quest for riches darkens the sense of right and wrong.
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A man can hide all things, excepting twain - That he is drunk, and that he is in love.
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But with what incessant and grievous ills is old age surrounded!
UNKNOWN
A man can hide all things, excepting twain-- That he is drunk, and that he is in love.
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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.
JUVENAL
How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
C.S. LEWIS
Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age.
ARISTOTLE
Death is not evil, for it frees man from all ills and takes away his desires along with desire's rew...
GIACOMO LEOPARDI
Castles in the air - they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.
HENRIK IBSEN
Castles in the air - they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build, too.
HENRIK IBSEN
Castles in the air - -they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build as well.
HENRIK IBSEN
Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all ...
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO
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
God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, the helpless, the miserable. They find not only sa...
H.L. MENCKEN
God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, the helpless, the miserable. They find not only san...
H. L. MENCKEN
...it is so silly of people to fancy that old age means crookedness and witheredness and feebleness ...
GEORGE MACDONALD
It's so easy to get caught up in the demands of life. And we all take refuge at times in routine...
BRUCE WILKINSON
Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM
Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
WILLIAM SOMERSET MAUGHAM
My bedroom is my sanctuary. It's like a refuge, and it's where I do a fair amount of designi...
VERA WANG
I have always felt that violence was the last refuge of the incompetent, and empty threats the last ...
NEIL GAIMAN
There is no sanctuary so holy that money cannot profane it, no fortress so strong that money cannot ...
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO
Some social ills are preserved by the common misbelief that things such as ignorance, greed, and stu...
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA
This indeed is a safe refuge, it is the refuge supreme. It is the refuge whereby one is freed from a...
BUDDHA
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
There is nothing quixotic or romantic in wanting to change the world. It is possible. It is the age-...
GIOCONDA BELLI
But their refuge had been a dead end; all that inflexible old guard could do was to die and let youn...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
In an age of instant gratification and superficial solutions to grave social ills, this cannot be em...
GARLAND HUNT
What I've always taken away from his words is the sense that we all have something that confines us,...
NOORILHUDA
Take Jonathan Franzen's work: it's just old wine in new bottles. They say he's the Tolst...
DAVID SHIELDS
It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary fi...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
Tell your story to the universe and Let your actions speak LOVE.' No matter what it is.
NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO
Don't take security in the false refuge of consensus.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS
When the Americans were trying to conquer the Navajos, they felt this need to capture Canyon de Chel...
HAMPTON SIDES
One, who chews the food till it become liquid, may not require to take liquid diet in old age.
DR HITESH C SHETH
Old age is the supreme evil, for it deprives man of all pleasures while allowing his appetites to re...
GIACOMO LEOPARDI
Women love always: when earth slips from them, they take refuge in heaven.
GEORGE SAND
Women love always: when earth slips from them, they take refuge in heaven.
OVID
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
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
It is not the end of joy that makes old age so sad, but the end of hope
JEAN PAUL RICHTER
Fame is no sanctuary from the passing of youth... suicide is much easier and more acceptable in Holl...
JULIE BURCHILL
You see, my son, a city is all about how you look at it...We must learn to see it in many ways, so t...
BILAL TANWEER
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
VICTOR HUGO
I consider the 70s to be the youth of old age. So all you women out there who are afraid of getting ...
BETTY DODSON
Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man
LEON TROTSKY
Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age; and if you understand that old age has wisdo...
LEONARDO DA VINCI
We're all going to get old one day. So let's just love the age we've got and let's not crave the age...
NEIL PASRICHA
It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the w...
MARGARET MEAD
Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that happen to a man.
LEON TROTSKY
The fear of old age is something that one feels when they're younger. Once you get to being old,...
PAOLO SORRENTINO
Humor is an antidote to all ills.
PATCH ADAMS
All over the Middle East, we face difficult challenges: the ongoing tragedy in Syria, the instabilit...
REUVEN RIVLIN
Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.
LEON TROTSKY
Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.
JAMES THURBER
Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.
D. H. LAWRENCE
Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE
It is the fear of middle-age in the young, of old-age in the middle-aged, which is the prime cause o...
CYRIL CONNOLLY
Being present is being connected to All Things.
S. KELLEY HARRELL, M. DIV.
The child, screaming for refuge, senses how feeble a shelter the twig hut of grown-up awareness is. ...
KATHERINE DUNN
We must learn to see it in many ways, so that when one of the ways of looking hurts us, we can take ...
BILAL TANWEER
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
It is easy to become a monk in one's old age
ETHIOPIAN PROVERB
A library should fill our leisure with adventure. It is a refuge from the commonplace and the dull, ...
E. NORMAN TORRY
Of all human ills, greatest is fortune's wayward tyranny.
SOPHOCLES
The fact is that we all seem capable of living, because at some time or other we have taken refuge i...
MILENA JESENSKA
Old age though despised, is coveted by all.
PROVERB
And when Aaron and his sons have made an end of covering the sanctuary, and all the vessels of the s...
BIBLE
As the body grows in youth, so does wisdom in old age.
JIM GENOVESE
We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Old age is not so bad when you consider the alternatives.
MAURICE CHEVALIER
He may be old now, but he is still a hero in their eyes
LORETTA LIVINGSTONE
That folly of old age which is called dotage is peculiar to silly old men, not to age itself.
UNKNOWN
To take refuge with an inferior is to betray one's self.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS
Middle age is when your old classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you.
BENNETT CERF
There is a power so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive tha...
WOODROW T. WILSON
Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that happen to a man. -Leon Trotsky.
LEON TROTSKY
Every mind is a clutter of memories, images, inventions and age-old repetitions. It can be a ghetto,...
MARGO JEFFERSON
A husband is the medicine that cures all the ills of girlhood.
UNKNOWN
Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age
BOOTH TARKINGTON
Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age.
BOOTH TARKINGTON
Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age.
BOOTH TARKINGTON
Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.
BOOTH TARKINGTON
Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY
Was it the forgetfulness of old age or personal incapacity that made the man able to say please but ...
YANN MARTEL
Actions speak louder than words, in fact. When we don't take action, we foster the mistaken reality ...
ERIC SAMUEL TIMM
I am growing old, and my future, so to speak, is already behind me.
GEORGE WALD

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