“In youth, we run into difficulties. In old age, difficulties run into us.”
Beverly Sills (1929–2007) opera soprano
Josh Billings, as quoted in Mac's Giant Book of Quips and Quotes (1983) by E. C. McKenzie
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“Nature abhors the old, and old age seems the only disease; all others run into this one.”
1840s, Essays: First Series (1841), Circles
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American philosopher, essayist, and poet 1803–1882Related quotes
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p, 125
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“That disease
Of which all old men sicken,—avarice.”
Thomas Middleton The Roaring Girl
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“There's no such thing as old age; there is only sorrow.”
Edith Wharton (1862–1937) American novelist, short story writer, designer
"A First Word" <br class="br"> A Backward Glance http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200271.txt (1934)
Anton Chekhov (1860–1904) Russian dramatist, author and physician
Letter to A.S. Suvorin (March 29, 1890)
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“Old age is the harbor of all ills.”
Diogenes Laërtius (180–240) biographer of ancient Greek philosophers
Bion, 47.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 4: The Academy
“Old age is the harbor of all ills.”
Bion of Borysthenes (-325–-246 BC) ancient greek philosopher
As quoted by Diogenes Laërtius, iv. 48.
