Old age
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Sep 16, 2026
Elizabeth JohnGUEST
All right.
Elizabeth JohnGUEST
Do you care to speak on how the sisters take care of each other in old age?
Louis MarieGUEST
Mm.
Louis MarieGUEST
That's a good question.
Louis MarieGUEST
Mm-hmm
MiriamHOST
...
MiriamHOST
in their, in their old age.
MiriamHOST
And that, um, we have sisters who are also trained as nurses.
Dan FrazeNARRATOR
The baby is not troubled with difficult grammatical changes, for the Japanese language has few inflections, and it is too young to be puzzled with the intricacies of the various expressions denoting different degrees of politeness, which are the snare and the despair of the foreigner studying Japanese.
Dan FrazeNARRATOR
As our little girl emerges from babyhood, she finds the life opening before her a bright and happy one, but one hedged about closely by the proprieties, and one in which from babyhood to old age she must expect to be always under the control of one of the stronger sex.
Dan FrazeNARRATOR
Her position will be an honorable and respected one only as she learns in her youth the lesson of cheerful obedience, of pleasing manners, and of personal cleanliness and neatness.
Dan FrazeNARRATOR
Her duties must be always either within the house or, as she belongs to the peasant class, on the farm.
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Dan FrazeNARRATOR
She takes no thought for these things herself, and her intercourse with young men, though free and unconstrained, has about it no grain of flirtation or romantic interest.
Dan FrazeNARRATOR
When the time comes for her to marry, her father will have her meet some eligible young man, and both she and the young man will know, when they are brought together, what is the end in view, and will make up their minds about the matter.
Dan FrazeNARRATOR
But until that time comes, the modest Japanese maiden carries on no flirtations, thinks little of men except as higher beings to be deferred to and waited on, and preserves the childlike innocence of manner, combined with a serene dignity, under all circumstances, that is so noticeable a trait in the Japanese woman from childhood to old age.
Dan FrazeNARRATOR
The Japanese woman is, under this discipline, a finished product at the age of sixteen or eighteen.
speaker_6NARRATOR
Finally he forgot everything else in thinking about it, and his soul contained but one wish, which was to behold Abraham, and but one longing, which was to have been witness to that event.
speaker_6NARRATOR
His desire was not to see the beautiful lands of the Orient, and not the splendor of the promised land, and not the reverent couple whose old age the Lord had blessed with children, and not the venerable figure of the aged patriarch, and not the God-given vigorous youth of Isaac.
speaker_6NARRATOR
It would have been the same to him if the event had come to pass on some barren heath.
speaker_6NARRATOR
But his wish was to have been with Abraham on the three days' journey, when he rode with sorrow before him and with Isaac at his side.
speaker_6NARRATOR
Two.
speaker_6NARRATOR
It was in the early morning.
speaker_6NARRATOR
Abraham arose betimes and embraced Sarah, the bride of his old age, and Sarah kissed Isaac, who had taken the shame from her.
speaker_6NARRATOR
Isaac, her pride, her hope for all coming generations.
speaker_2NARRATOR
It is a curious fact that the ones we were taught rarely work but those we can actually never break were written by nobody.
Mike TilburyHOST
nobody.taught by no one and are kept perfectly by all of us every day And so to Old Age, Young Love by Hunter Davies.
Mike TilburyHOST
It is so strange being on my own.
Mike TilburyHOST
I was married for fifty-five years, and we always had a country cottage, mostly in the Lakes, and went there together all summer.
Cody LoganNARRATOR
Read by Cody Logan.
M. L. CohenNARRATOR
On Old Age by Cicero This is a LibriVox recording.
M. L. CohenNARRATOR
All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain.
M. L. CohenNARRATOR
For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org. And should my service, Titus, ease the weight of care that wrings your heart, and draw the sting which rankles there, what guerdon shall there be? For I may address you, Atticus, in the lines in which Flamininus was addressed by the man who, poor in wealth, was rich in honor's gold.
M. L. CohenNARRATOR
And yet, I have an idea that you are at times stirred to the heart by the same circumstances as myself.
M. L. CohenNARRATOR
To console you for these is a more serious matter, and must be put off to another time.
M. L. CohenNARRATOR
For the present, I have resolved to dedicate to you an essay on old age.
M. L. CohenNARRATOR
For from the burden of impending or at least advancing age, common to us both, I would do something to relieve us both.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
Chapter 2, Part 1.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
Early Mayors of the Palace The historical student who visits in thought the nursery of modern European states, the period from 500 to 800 of the Christian era, finds with amused surprise how many of the features familiar to him in their weather-beaten old age he can trace in the faces of those baby kingdoms.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
Gothic Spain with its manifold councils, its ecclesiastical intolerance, and its bitter persecutions of the Jews is the anticipation of the Spain of the Ferdinands and the Philips.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
Italy, cleft in sunder by the patrimony of St. Peter and with the undying hostility between the Pope and the Lombard king, presages the very conflict which is now being waged between the Vatican and the Quirinal.
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Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
Though himself a heathen, Rathbot was fain to give his daughter, who was no doubt converted to Christianity, in marriage to Pippin's son Grimwald, and the Anglo-Saxon preacher Willebrord had a clear course given him for his missionary operations among the Frisians.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
So too the Alamanni and the Bavarians appear to have been brought back into subjection by Pippin, though we hear less of his operations on the Danube than by the mouths of the Rhine.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
For twenty-seven years this strong and statesmanlike man ruled with absolute sway the kingdom of the Franks, and then in his old age by one act of supreme folly went near to ruining the whole achievement of a lifetime.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
As it was said of old, let no man be called happy, so may we add, let no man be called wise till his death.
Bryce KreeseNARRATOR
Swift was himself almost fanatically clean.
Bryce KreeseNARRATOR
It is a disgusting sight to behold old men who are careless of their clothes and appearance, as though old age gave one the privilege to appear in public with the remains of the last meal on the coat, waistcoat, and shirt.
Bryce KreeseNARRATOR
9.
Bryce KreeseNARRATOR
Observe the ways of the dog and learn wisdom.
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Doreen MarcottNARRATOR
Too many people are afraid of tomorrow.
Doreen MarcottNARRATOR
Their happiness is poisoned by a phantom.
Doreen MarcottNARRATOR
Many are afraid of old age, forgetting that even if they should lose their bodily vigor, weakness itself may minister to the development of the mind and spirit.
Doreen MarcottNARRATOR
In the words of the aged poet Waller, "The soul's dark cottage battered and decayed lets in new light through chinks that time has made.
Brad BennettHOST
The annual COLA debate comes amid a much larger concern, Social Security's long-term solvency.
Brad BennettHOST
The 2026 Social Security Trustee Report projects that the Old Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund, that's the fund that was set up when they put Social Security into place.
Brad BennettHOST
That was the trust fund that the money would go into, which was supposed to grow at a projected rate every year.
Brad BennettHOST
Well, it did for a while, and then...
Ryan WilliamsNARRATOR
is
Ryan WilliamsNARRATOR
Loki who has done this, thundered Thor one day, when, from old age and weakness, he had been defeated in a battle with the now ever-youthful giants.
Ryan WilliamsNARRATOR
It is Loki who has done this, and we will bear it no longer.
Ryan WilliamsNARRATOR
Look at Odin.
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Ryan WilliamsNARRATOR
Even the gods, even Odin himself, with these would not but contend in vain.
Ryan WilliamsNARRATOR
And Eli, it is indeed as Utgard-Loki said, no power in heaven itself can equal hers.
Ryan WilliamsNARRATOR
She is the all-powerful, the never-failing, the ever-present Old Age.
Ryan WilliamsNARRATOR
All the people of the earth, all the gods of Asgard, Even the earth and Asgard must one day fall before her mighty will.
Dan FrazeNARRATOR
The baby is not troubled with difficult grammatical changes, for the Japanese language has few inflections, and it is too young to be puzzled with the intricacies of the various expressions denoting different degrees of politeness, which are the snare and the despair of the foreigner studying Japanese.
Dan FrazeNARRATOR
As our little girl emerges from babyhood, she finds the life opening before her a bright and happy one, but one hedged about closely by the proprieties, and one in which, from babyhood to old age, she must expect to be always under the control of one of the stronger sex.
Dan FrazeNARRATOR
Her position will be an honorable and respected one only as she learns in her youth the lesson of cheerful obedience, of pleasing manners, and of personal cleanliness and neatness.
Dan FrazeNARRATOR
Her duties must be always either within the house or, as she belongs to the peasant class, on the farm.
23 MINS LATER
Dan FrazeNARRATOR
She takes no thought for these things herself, and her intercourse with young men, though free and unconstrained, has about it no grain of flirtation or romantic interest.
Dan FrazeNARRATOR
When the time comes for her to marry, her father will have her meet some eligible young man, and both she and the young man will know, when they are brought together, what is the end in view, and will make up their minds about the matter.
Dan FrazeNARRATOR
But until that time comes, the modest Japanese maiden carries on no flirtations, thinks little of men except as higher beings to be deferred to and waited on, and preserves the childlike innocence of manner, combined with a serene dignity, under all circumstances, that is so noticeable a trait in the Japanese woman from childhood to old age.
Dan FrazeNARRATOR
The Japanese woman is, under this discipline, a finished product at the age of sixteen or eighteen.
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