Old age

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Old to grow, but ever learning.

Solon

Quoted in Plutarch's Lives, by Plutarch

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Learning Wisdom Aging Old age

Speaker

Solon

Author

Plutarch

Source

Solon Plutarch's Lives

Genre

Historical literature

Language

Greek

Time

119 110s 2nd century

Era

Classical antiquity

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Citation

Plutarch. Βίοι Παράλληλοι [Parallel Lives]. Rome, 1470.

I'm too old for this shit!

Lethal Weapon

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Topic

Old age Over it

Speaker

Roger Murtaugh

Actor

Danny Glover

Source

Lethal Weapon

Medium

Film

Genre

Buddy movie Action (film) Action

Language

English

Time

1987 1980s 20th century

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Citation

Lethal Weapon. Directed by Richard Donner, Warner Bros. Pictures/Silver Pictures, 1987.

Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Dylan Thomas

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Topic

Old age Death

Author

Dylan Thomas

Source

Do Not Go Gentle Into that Good Night

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1951 1950s 20th century

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Citation

Thomas, Dylan. "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night." Botteghe Oscure, 1951.

She was seventy-five and she was going to make some changes in her life.

Jonathan Franzen

The Corrections

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Topic

Never too late Personal growth Old age

Author

Jonathan Franzen

Source

The Corrections

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

2001 2000s 21st century

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Citation

Franzen, Jonathan. The Corrections. Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 2001.

My age is as a lusty winter,
Frosty but kindly.

William Shakespeare

As You Like It

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Topic

Twilight of life Old age Winter

Speaker

Adam

Author

William Shakespeare

Source

As You Like It

Medium

Play

Genre

Comedy (play)

Language

English

Time

1616 1610s 17th century

Era

European Renaissance

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Original Citation

Shakespeare, William. "As You Like It." Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. London: Edward Blount and William and Isaac Jaggard, 1623, act 2, sc. 3.

Current Citation

Shakespeare, William. "As You Like It." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 2, sc. 3.

I hope I die before I get old.

The Who

My Generation

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Old age

Speaker

The Who

Source

My Generation

Medium

Song

Genre

Rock music

Statement Type

Wish

Language

English

Time

1965 1960s 20th century

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Citation

Townshend, Peter. My Generation. Performed by The Who. Brunswick Records, 1965.

Value this time in your life kids, because this is the time in your life when you still have your choices, and it goes by so fast. When you're a teenager, you think you can do anything, and you do. Your twenties are a blur. Your thirties, you raise your family, you make a little money and you think to yourself, "What happened to my twenties?" Your forties, you grow a little pot belly you grow another chin. The music starts to get too loud and one of your old girlfriends from high school becomes a grandmother. Your fifties you have a minor surgery. You'll call it a procedure, but it's a surgery. Your sixties you'll have a major surgery, the music is still loud but it doesn't matter because you can't hear it anyway. Seventies, you and the wife retire to Fort Lauderdale, you start eating dinner at two o'clock in the afternoon, you have lunch around ten, breakfast the night before, you spend most of your time wandering around malls looking for the ultimate soft yogurt and muttering, "how come the kids don't call? How come the kids don't call?" The eighties, you'll have a major stroke, and you end up babbling to some Jamaican nurse who your wife can't stand but who you call mama. Any questions?

City Slickers

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Topic

Stages of life Aging Old age

Speaker

Mitch Robbins

Actor

Billy Crystal

Source

City Slickers

Medium

Film

Genre

Comedy (film) Western (film) Comedy Western

Language

English

Time

1991 1990s 20th century

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Citation

City Slickers. Directed by Ron Underwood, Castle Rock Entertainment/Face Productions/Nelson Entertainment, 1991.

With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding.

Job

Job 12:12

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Topic

Wisdom Old age

Speaker

Job

Source

Book of Job The Bible

Medium

Scripture

Genre

Religious literature

Language

Hebrew

Time

500 BC 500s BC 6th century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

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Citation

The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Job 12:12).

The old are in a second childhood.

Strepsiades

The Clouds

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Topic

Youth vs. old age Old age

Speaker

Strepsiades

Author

Aristophanes

Source

The Clouds

Medium

Play

Genre

Comedic play Greek theater

Language

Greek

Time

423 BC 420s BC 5th century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

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Original Citation

Aristophanes. Νεφέλαι [The Clouds]. c. 423 BC, The Dionysia, Athens, Greece.

Current Citation

Aristophanes. "The Clouds." Aristophanes: Frogs and Other Plays, translated by Stephen Halliwell. Oxford University Press, 2017.

The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young.

Oscar Wilde

The Picture of Dorian Gray

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Old vs. young Youth Old age

Speaker

Lord Henry "Harry" Wotton

Author

Oscar Wilde

Source

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Medium

Novel Magazine

Language

English

Time

1890 1890s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Wilde, Oscar. "The Picture of Dorian Gray." Lippincott's Monthly Magazine. Philadelphia, July 1890, ch. 12.

Current Citation

Wilde, Oscar. The Picture of Dorian Gray, edited by Robert Mighall. Penguin Classics, 2003, ch. 19.

Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.

Herman Melville

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale

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Topic

Old age Trouble sleeping Sleep Death

Author

Herman Melville

Source

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1851 1850s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick; or, The Whale. London: Richard Bentley/New York: Harper & Brothers, 1851, ch. 29.

Current Citation

Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick or, The Whale. Penguin Classics, 2002, ch. 29.

Every man desires to live long; but no man would be old.

Jonathan Swift

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Topic

Long life Old age Aging

Author

Jonathan Swift

Source

Thoughts on Various Subjects, Moral and Diverting

Medium

Essay

Genre

Satire

Statement Type

Paradox

Language

English

Time

1727 1720s 18th century

Era

Age of Enlightenment

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Original Citation

Swift, Jonathan. "Thoughts on Various Subjects." Miscellanies in Prose and Verse. 2nd ed, Vol. 1, London: Sam Fairbrother, 1727.

Current Citation

Swift, Jonathan. "Thoughts on Various Subjects (1711)." Jonathan Swift: The Essential Writings, edited by Claude Rawson and Ian Higgins. W. W. Norton & Company, 2009.

Just old age. It's the only disease, Mr. Thompson, you don't look forward to being cured of.

Citizen Kane

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Topic

Old age Fear of death Death

Speaker

Mr. Bernstein

Actor

Everett Sloane

Source

Citizen Kane

Medium

Film

Genre

Drama (film) Drama

Language

English

Time

1941 1940s 20th century

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Citation

Citizen Kane. Directed by Orson Welles. RKO Radio Pictures/Mercury Productions, 1941.

If youth knew; if age could.

Henri Estienne

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Topic

Youth vs. old age Youth Old age

Author

Henri Estienne

Source

Les Premices

Statement Type

Proverbs, aphorisms and adages

Language

French

Time

1594 1590s 16th century

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Citation

Estienne, Henri. Les Premices. 1594, bk. 4, epigram 4.

Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore,
And coming events cast their shadows before.

Thomas Campbell

Lochiels's Warning

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Topic

Old age Approaching death

Speaker

Wizard

Author

Thomas Campbell

Source

Lochiels's Warning

Language

English

Time

1802 1800s 19th century

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Citation

Campbell, Thomas. Lochiel's Warning. c. 1802.

Inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened.

Terry Pratchett

Moving Pictures

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Topic

Lost youth Youth vs. old age Old age

Author

Terry Pratchett

Source

Moving Pictures

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1990 1990s 20th century

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Citation

Pratchett, Terry. Moving Pictures. Victor Gollancz, 1990.

Old-age, a second child, by Nature cursed
With more and greater evils than the first,
Weak, sickly, full of pains; in ev'ry breath
Railing at life, and yet afraid of death.

Charles Churchill

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Old age

Author

Charles Churchill

Source

Gotham

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1764 1760s 18th century

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Citation

Churchill, Charles. Gotham. London: W. Flexney, 1764, bk. 1, I. 215.

How much more elder art thou than thy looks!

William Shakespeare

The Merchant of Venice

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Topic

Physical appearance Old age

Speaker

Shylock

Author

William Shakespeare

Source

The Merchant of Venice

Medium

Play

Genre

Comedy (play)

Language

English

Time

1598 1590s 16th century

Era

European Renaissance

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Original Citation

Shakespeare, William. The Merchant of Venice. c. 1598, The Theatre, London, England, UK, act 4, sc. 1.

Current Citation

Shakespeare, William. "The Merchant of Venice." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 4, sc. 1.

Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.

Cicero

On Old Age

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Old age

Author

Cicero

Source

On Old Age

Genre

Philosophical literature

Language

Latin

Time

44 BC 40s BC 1st century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Cato Maior de Senectute [Cato the Elder on Old Age]. c. 1885, ch. 23, sect. 85.

Current Citation

Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Cicero: Cato Maior de Senectute [Cato the Elder on Old Age], edited by J. G. F. Powell. Cambridge University Press, 2004.

A gray head is a crown of glory; It is found in the way of righteousness.

Proverbs 16:31

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Old age

Source

Proverbs The Bible

Medium

Scripture

Genre

Religious literature

Language

Hebrew

Time

686 BC 680s BC 7th century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

Authentication Score 3

Citation

The Holy Bible: New American Standard Bible. The Lockman Foundation, 1971. (Proverbs 16:31).