Popular sayings, sayings, aphorisms about old age, retirement age and wonderful people
- Leon Trotsky (November 7, 1879 - August 21, 1940) - revolutionary—Old age is the most unexpected thing that awaits us in life
Seneca (4 BC - 65) - Roman philosopher, poet, statesman — Old age is an incurable disease — The oppression of (retirement) age is felt only by the body, not the soul
Victor Hugo (February 26, 1802 - May 22, 1885) - French romantic writer - The further I move on my life's path, the simpler I become
Bernard Shaw (July 26, 1856 - November 2, 1950) - English playwright - There is only one consolation in old age: what you could not get in your youth, you no longer need
They begin to cheat on us And we, like old-timers, must give place to new arrivals, - Then save us, good genius, From cowardly reproaches, From slander, from bitterness For a changing life; From a feeling of hidden anger At the world being renewed, Where new guests sit down for the feast prepared for them... (Tyutchev)
Aristotle (384-322 BC) - ancient Greek philosopher - Old people are attached to life, and the closer to the last day, the more
Cicero (January 3, 106-December 3, 43 BC) - ancient Roman orator, statesman, philosopher - Everyone wants to live to old age, and when they do, they blame her - Old age is by nature too talkative - Old age is strong thanks to the basics laid down in youth
Pliny the Younger (61-113) - ancient Roman politician, writer, lawyer - A calm, orderly life suits old people: it’s too late to strain one’s strength, it’s a shame to achieve honors
Pierre Abelard (1079-21 April 1142) - French philosopher, poet, scientist - What we sin in youth, we have to atone for in old age
Francois de La Rochefoucauld (September 15, 1613 - March 17, 1680) - French philosopher, writer - Old people love to give good advice because they are no longer able to set bad examples
Samuel Johnson (September 18, 1709 - December 13) - English literary critic, critic, poet - Old age is usually boastful and tends to exaggerate events and actions that are long gone in the past.
Denis Ivanovich Fonvizin (April 4, 1745 - December 12, 1792) - writer, playwright - Happy is he who retains all his feelings in old age
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (January 29, 1860 - July 15, 1904) - writer, playwright - And why is it that in old age a person monitors his feelings and criticizes his actions? Why shouldn't he do this when he was young? Old age is already unbearable
Dusk clings easily and sweetly to the old man's gray hair. You drink a cup without leaving a trace - You see gold at the bottom. But it is not darkness or danger that the Night prepares for you, but saving clarity in the comprehension of existence. Everything that burned, that depressed, Retreats into the world of shadows. Old age is only the beginning of your new lightness. Before you, parting, Days and years pass - Life, with which, parting, you are connected as never before... (Stefan Zweig)
Funny sayings and short phrases about age
A person’s age is divided into three stages: “Childhood. Youth and... “You look great!” There is indeed a fourth stage - a very sad one - “You are holding up great!” I really want to stay longer in the third age.
And so, unexpectedly - out of the blue, you become a middle-aged woman. You are anonymous. Nobody notices you. You gain amazing freedom - the freedom of an invisible person.
Unhappy is the fate of people! No sooner has the mind reached its maturity than the body begins to weaken.
When I was young, I made it a rule not to drink a drop of alcohol before lunch. Now that I am no longer young, I adhere to the rule of not drinking a drop of alcohol before breakfast.
You should never trust a woman who tells you her age. A woman capable of this is capable of anything.
My youth was over, and I discovered that middle age is not a matter of years lived.
Mild sclerosis is when you forget who you owe, deep sclerosis is when you don’t remember who owes you.
But a mature husband is more a child than a youth, and there is less sorrow in him: he understands death and life better.
At my age, I can no longer afford to feel bad about myself.
The number of years does not indicate the length of life. A person's life is measured by what he did and felt in it.
The woman is seven years younger than her friends claim, and five years older than the men give her.
What you sow in youth, you reap in maturity.
How often, when a person’s second youth comes, he begins to fall into childhood.
I was born on January 30th, but I look much younger.
What to do with the person who was the first to celebrate his birthday? Killing is not enough.
If a woman confesses her age to you, it means she has already left it.
What is love? This is a kind of madness over which reason has no power. This is a disease to which a person is susceptible at any age and which is incurable.
The older I get, the less I care about who sleeps with whom.
In old age, even watches that have been standing for a long time begin to rush.
Youth deceived me, youth carried me away, but old age corrected me.
Not only don’t say how old you are, but don’t even say how old you look!
I speak the truth insofar as I dare to speak it; The older I get, I dare to do this less and less.
The older you are, the stronger the wind becomes - and it is always headwind.
It's better to be a young dung beetle than an old bird of paradise.
I have reached the age when relatives die unnoticed.
Age always leaves traces by which it can be detected.
Whether two people did the right thing by marrying each other cannot be judged even at their silver wedding.
The mistakes inherent in age go away with age.
As a human being moves along the path of life, the novel that shocked him in his youth, and the fairy tale that delighted him in childhood, fade and fade of themselves.
I used to be afraid of being late. Now I can’t make it in time.
Teenagers don't feel pity. This is the passion of mature people.
I think I've finally become an adult - and just in time.
The only thing a woman remembers firmly is the age of other women.
Old age is the time when you are ready to take on things that youth does not undertake because they require too much time.
In your youth you want to live more fun, in maturity - better, and in old age - longer.
It is true that at fifty you can rarely count on reciprocity in love, but it is no less true that at this age you can have a lot of it for fifty gold pieces.
Inside ourselves, we are all the same age.
Punctuality is one of the advantages of age.
You can become younger at any age.
A conversation between an old man and a young man usually ends in contempt and pity on both sides.
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