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(noun) (with the, invariable plural only) People who are old; old beings; the older generation, taken as a group. Example: "A civilised society should always look after the old in the community."

23 QUOTES
"As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others."
— Audrey Hepburn
"The most important thing is growing old gracefully."
— Audrey Hepburn
"Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again."
— C. S. Lewis
"You don't stop laughing when you grow old, you grow old when you stop laughing."
— George Bernard Shaw
"Finding old music you used to listen to is like getting back in touch with an old friend."
— Jessica Pickard
"Damn, cold world. I never thought I’d see the day that you’re my old girl."
— J. Cole
"With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come."
— William Shakespeare
"I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made."
— Marilyn Monroe
"Look at the bright side no matter how old you are, you are younger than you'll ever be again."
— Zig Ziglar
"You're never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child."
— Dr. Seuss
"I think, as you get older, that's when your ambitions become "peculiar"."
— Barack Obama
"I enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older."
— Virginia Woolf
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