Old Age Quotes - Page 11

• Learning maketh young men temperate, is the comfort of old age, standing for wealth with poverty, and serving as an ornament to riches.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Learning, Men, Age

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• Life has taught me that the greatest tragedy is not to die too soon but to live too long.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Long, Tragedy, Taught

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1958). “Letters of Ellen Glasgow”

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• The aged are terrible - mere heaps of cinders on the grass from which none can tell how tall the flames once were or what company gathered round them.

  Rebecca West

  Flames, Age, Grass

  Rebecca West (2010). “The Judge”, p.45, Open Road Media

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• the last steps of life are ever slow and difficult.

  Madame de Stael

  Age, Lasts, Steps

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• Old age appears hideous to us until we have to choose between it and death.

  Diane de Poitiers

  Age, Hideous

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• There are three signs of old age: loss of memory ... I forget the other two.

  Red Skelton

  Memories, Humorous, Loss

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• If I do not do sensible things about investments I shall spend my old age in a workhouse, where nobody will understand my jokes.

  Rebecca West

  Age, Investment, Sensible

  Rebecca West (2010). “The Strange Necessity: Essays and Reviews”, p.27, Open Road Media

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• Old age takes from the man of intellect no qualities save those that are useless to wisdom.

  Joseph Joubert

  Men, Age, Quality

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• All who live to a good old age have a genius for sleep.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Sleep, Age, Genius

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Ann Dexter Gordon (2006). “The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony: When clowns make laws for queens, 1880-1887”, p.114, Rutgers University Press

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• In bringing up a child, think of its old age.

  Joseph Joubert

  Children, Thinking, Age

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.123

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• Old age was naturally more honored in times when people could not know much more than what they had seen.

  Joseph Joubert

  People, Age, Honored

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.76

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• Sometimes [the expression] old age has a kind of harrowing beauty. But elderly - ugh!

  Dodie Smith

  Elderly, Expression, Age

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• You will know you're old when you cease to be amazed.

  Noel Coward

  Age, Amazed, Cease

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• Why the increasing emphasis by professional age experts and the media on - and public acceptance of - the nursing home as the locus of age when, in fact, more than ninety percent of those over sixty-five continue to live in the community?

  Betty Friedan

  Home, Nursing, Acceptance

  Betty Friedan (2006). “Fountain of Age”, p.68, Simon and Schuster

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• Old age is a woman's hell.

  Ninon de L'Enclos

  Age, Hell

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• There is a slow-growing beauty which only comes to perfection in old age.... I have seen sweeter smiles on a lip of seventy than I ever saw on a lip of seventeen. There is the beauty of youth, and there is also the beauty of holiness—a beauty much more seldom met; and more frequently found in the arm-chair by the fire, with grandchildren around its knee, than in the ball-room or the promenade.

  Alexander Smith

  Grandchildren, Fire, Perfection

  Alexander Smith (1914). “Dreamthorp”

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• People always fancy that we must become old to become wise; but, in truth, as years advance, it is hard to keep ourselves as wise as we were.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Wise, Years, People

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.477, Ravenio Books

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• God is favorable to those whom he makes to die by degrees; 'tis the only benefit of old age. The last death will be so much the less painful: it will kill but a quarter of a man or but half a one at most.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Death, Men, Age

  Michel de Montaigne (1872). “All the Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne”, p.880

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• Tis well for old age that it is always accompanied with want of perception, ignorance, and a facility of being deceived. For should we see how we are used and would not acquiesce, what would become of us?

  Michel de Montaigne

  Ignorance, Perception, Age

  Michel de Montaigne, William Hazlitt (1860). “The Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy”, p.206

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• Is old age really so terrible? Not if you've brushed your teeth faithfully.

  Woody Allen

  Maturity, Age, Teeth

  Woody Allen (2007). “The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose”, Random House Incorporated

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• The law of God, as quite plainly expressed in woman's construction is this: There shall be no limit put upon your intercourse with the other sex sexually, at any time of life. The law of God, as quite plainly expressed in man's construction is this: During your entire life you shall be under inflexible limits and restrictions, sexually. During twenty-three days in every month (in absence of pregnancy) from the time a woman is seven years old till she dies of old age, she is ready for action, and competent. As competent as the candlestick is to receive the candle. Competent every day, competent every night. Also she wants that candle - yearns for it, longs for it, hankers after it, as commanded by the law of God in her heart.

  Mark Twain

  Sex, Pregnancy, Heart

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• Here's a song was never sung: Growing old is dying young.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Song, Dying, Age

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (2008). “Early Poems”, p.62, Courier Corporation

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• For inside all the weakness of old age, the spirit, God knows, is as mercurial as it ever was.

  May Sarton

  Self Confidence, Age, Weakness

  May Sarton (2014). “Kinds of Love: A Novel”, p.181, Open Road Media

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• Growing old is, of all things we experience, that which takes the most courage, and at a time when we have the least resources, especially with which to meet frustration.

  May Sarton

  Frustration, Age, Growing

  May Sarton (2014). “The House by the Sea: A Journal”, p.91, Open Road Media

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• It is, I assume, quite easy to wither into old age, and hard to grow into it.

  May Sarton

  Age, Assuming, Easy

  May Sarton (2014). “The House by the Sea: A Journal”, p.16, Open Road Media

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