Old Age Quotes - Page 17

• In infants, levity is a prettiness; in men a shameful defect; but in old age, a monstrous folly.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Men, Age, Levity

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• Nothing is more ridiculous in old people that were once good-looking, than to forget that they are not so still.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Beauty, People, Age

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• As we grow older, we increase in folly--and in wisdom.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Wisdom, Age, Increase

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• All I can say, in answer to this kind queries [of friends] is that I have not the distemper called the Plague; but that I have allthe plagues of old age, and of a shattered carcase.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Health, Age, Answers

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• I often wish for the end of the wretched remnant of my life; and that wish is a rational one; but then the innate principle of self-preservation, wisely implanted in our natures, for obvious purposes, opposes that wish, and makes us endeavour to spin out our thread as long as we can, however decayed and rotten it may be.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Death, Self, Long

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• Singularity is only pardonable in old age and retirement; I may now be as singular as I please, but you may not.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Retirement, Age, May

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.307, Oxford University Press

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• I am in the pitiable situation of feeling all the force of temptation without having the strength to succumb to it.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Temptation, Feelings, Age

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• At any age we must cherish illusions, consolatory or merely pleasant; in youth, they are omnipresent; in old age we must search for them, or even invent them. But with all that, boredom is their natural and inevitable accompaniment.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Boredom, Age, Youth

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• Old age likes to dwell in the recollections of the past, and, mistaking, the speedy march of years, often is inclined to take the prudence of the winter time for a fat wisdom of, midsummer days. Manhood is bent to the passing cares of the passing moment, and holds so closely to his eyes the sheet of, "to-day," that it screens the "to-morrow" from his sight.

  Lajos Kossuth

  Eye, Winter, Past

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• When you're my age, you have the feeling sometimes that you're seeing the show come round again.

  John le Carre

  Feelings, Age, Sometimes

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• The easiest thing for our friends to discover in us, and the hardest thing for us to discover in ourselves, is that we are growing old.

  Josh Billings

  Age, Growing, Hardest

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• The old age of women is bearable only on condition that they do not take up any room, do not make any noise, do not demand any service; on condition that they render all the service that is expected of them, and actually have no existence except for the good of others.

  Suzanne Curchod

  Age, Demand, Noise

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• Life grows darker as we go on, till only one pure light is left shining on it; and that is faith. Old age, like solitude and sorrow, has its revelations.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Faith, Light, Shining

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• Old age is not one of the beauties of creation, but it is one of its harmonies. The law of contrasts is one of the laws of beauty. Under the conditions of our climate, shadow gives light its worth; sternness enhances mildness; solemnity, splendor. Varying proportions of size support and subserve one another.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Light, Law, Giving

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• True poets, like great artists, have scarcely any childhood, and no old age.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Artist, Poetry, Childhood

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• Old age is the night of life, as night is the old age of the day. Still, night is full of magnificence; and, for many, it is more brilliant than the day.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Night, Age, Magnificence

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• Old age is not one of the beauties of creation, but it is one of its harmonies.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Age, Harmony, Creation

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• Old age makes caricatures of us all.

  P. D. James

  Age, Caricatures

  P. D. James (2010). “A Taste for Death”, p.239, Vintage

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• The essence of any plan for financing old age is saving-to put aside some part of today's earnings for the future. Anything that saps the value of savings-and inflation is the worst single threat-is the enemy of the aged and of those who expect to grow old.

  Bernard Baruch

  Essence, Enemy, Age

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• Old age is a lease nature only signs as a particular favor, and it may be, to one, only in the space of two or three ages; and then with a pass to boot, to carry him through, all the traverses and difficulties she has strewed in the way of his long career.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Careers, Two, Space

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• It is indeed the boundary of life, beyond which we are not to pass; which the law of nature has pitched for a limit not to be exceeded.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Law, Age, Limits

  Michel de Montaigne (1853). “The Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy. With Notes from All the Commentators, Biographical and Bibliographical Notices &c., &c”, p.151

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• To love is a pleasure of youth, a sin in old age.

  Publilius Syrus

  Love Is, Age, Youth

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• old age is more bearable if it can be helped by an early acceptance of being loved and of loving.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Acceptance, Age, Bearable

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• Old age is the Outpatient's Dept of purgatory.

  William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley

  Age, Purgatory

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• Drunkenness, the ruin of reason, the destruction of strength, premature old age, momentary death.

  Saint Basil

  Age, Ruins, Reason

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