Old Age Quotes - Page 16

• Many talents preserve their precociousness right into old age.

  Karl Kraus

  Age, Talent, Preserves

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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• Cats of all kinds weave in and out of the text; Burroughs has clearly taken to them in a big way in his old age and seems torn between a fear they will betray him into sentimentality and a resigned acceptance that a man can't be ironic all the time.

  Angela Carter

  Taken, Cat, Acceptance

  Angela Carter (1993). “Expletives Deleted: Selected Writings”, Vintage Books

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• To be young is to live in the hope of escaping youth; to be old, in the despair of having succeeded.

  Jose Bergamin

  Hope, Escaping, Despair

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• Old age and youth cannot live together.

  Christina Stead

  Age, Together, Youth

  Christina Stead (1945). “For Love Alone”, p.116, The Miegunyah Press

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• Memory, wit, fancy, acuteness, cannot grow young again in old age, but the heart can.

  Jean Paul

  Memories, Heart, Age

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• Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant time. It is true that you are quietly shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front seat as spectator, and if you have really played your part you are more content to sit down and watch.

  Jane Ellen Harrison

  Believe, Age, Watches

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• Once established, an original river advances through its long life, manifesting certain peculiarities of youth, maturity and old age, by which its successive stages of growth may be recognized without much difficulty.

  William Morris Davis

  Maturity, Rivers, Long

  William Morris Davis, Douglas Wilson Johnson (1909). “Geographical Essays”

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• The young break rules for fun. The old for profit.

  Mason Cooley

  Fun, Broken, Age

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• An old man drinks tea and reads the newspaper--forgetting age for a moment.

  Mason Cooley

  Men, Tea, Age

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• Old age likes indecency. It's a sign of life.

  Mason Cooley

  Age, Likes, Signs Of Life

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• Dirty old men, ignoring society, continue to follow nature.

  Mason Cooley

  Nature, Dirty, Men

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• Old men feel a slightly reluctant affection for one another.

  Mason Cooley

  Men, Age, Affection

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• As a youth, I sought out decadence; as an elder, I try to avoid decay.

  Mason Cooley

  Trying, Age, Decay

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• Living too long exacts a painful price.

  Mason Cooley

  Long, Age, Painful

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• Old age learns about less after a lifetime of more.

  Mason Cooley

  Age, Lifetime

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• In middle age, I practiced feeling old, but the real thing has been a rude surprise.

  Mason Cooley

  Real, Rude, Feelings

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• When I lie down to love,
  old dwarf heart shakes her head.
  Like an imbecile she was born old.

  Anne Sexton

  Lying, Heart, Dwarves

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.50, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Inside many of us
  is a small old man
  who wants to get out.

  Anne Sexton

  Men, Age, Want

  Anne Sexton (2001). “Transformations”, p.17, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The essence of age is intellect. Wherever that appears, we call it old.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Essence, Age, Intellect

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.160, Harvard University Press

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• [On being the oldest living human being:] God must have forgotten me.

  Jeanne Calment

  Age, Forgotten, Humans

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• Ripe old age, cheerful, useful, and understanding, is one of the finest influences in the world.

  Ida Tarbell

  Understanding, Age, Cheerful

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• Do we all become garrulous and confidential as we approach the gates of old age? Is it that we instinctively feel, and cannot help asserting, our one advantage over the younger generation, which has so many over us? - the one advantage of time!

  Mary Augusta Ward

  Age, Generations, Helping

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• Though beauty is, with the most apt similitude, I had almost said with the most literal truth, called a flower that fades and dies almost in the very moment of its maturity; yet there is, methinks, a kind of beauty which lives even to old age; a beauty that is not in the features, but, if I may be allowed the expression, shines through them. As it is not merely corporeal it is not the object of mere sense, nor is it to be discovered but by persons of true taste and refined sentiment.

  Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

  Beauty, Flower, Maturity

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• The young see what they wish to see. The old see what they do not wish.

  Bette Lord

  Wish, Age, Youth

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• And when I'm introduced to one
  I wish I thought What Jolly Fun!

  Walter Raleigh

  Fun, Wish, Age

  "Wishes of an Elderly Man" l. 1 (1923)

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