Old Age Quotes - Page 19

• I urge young women to look ahead and see if they want to have a lonely old age or do they want to have what I have, which is the joy of 14 beautiful grandchildren.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Beautiful, Lonely, Grandchildren

  Source: rutherford.org

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• There was no singles problem until singles got so single-minded that they stopped wasting time with anyone ineligible. Before that, it was understood that one of society's main tasks was matchmaking. People with lifelong friendships and ties to local nonprofessional organizations did not have to fear that isolation would accompany retirement, old age, or losing a spouse. Overburdened householders could count on the assistance not only of their own extended families, but of the American tradition of neighborliness.

  Judith Martin

  Retirement, Organization, Ties

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• I'm finding that everything sells. I've been toying with the fact that I have this big giant glass jar with the metal screw lid on it that's full of ribbons and memorabilia from conventions and stuff. I've got buttons and I have all of my Walt Disney Mickey Mouse credit cards. I'm wondering in my old age if anyone would pay for a credit card with Mickey Mouse on it issued to me. I wonder if anyone would pay anything for that?

  Mike Royer

  Glasses, Age, Giants

  "Interview: Mike Royer Talks Classic Cartoons, Jack Kirby and Much More". Interview with Bryan Stroud, comicsbulletin.com. January 30, 2015.

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• An American is a guy, a rich guy with a family, a decent guy with a family with as many kids as he likes, doing what he wants, working with people that he likes, and enjoying himself to his very old age.

  Jack Kirby

  Kids, People, Guy

  Interview with Gary Groth, www.tcj.com. February 1990.

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• Death means that a form of life dissolves or that the imminent possibility of dissolution exists, whether through our own death or through illness or old age.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Mean, Age, Illness

  Source: www.soulwise.net

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• There is another side to death. Whether death happens through an act of violence to a large number of people or to an individual, whether death comes prematurely through illness or accident, or whether death comes through old age, death is always an opening. So a great opportunity comes whenever we face death.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Opportunity, Numbers, People

  Source: www.soulwise.net

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• It all would have been much better if individuals saved for their own old age.

  Milton Friedman

  Age, Individual, Saved

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• People don't die of old age, they die of diseases that accompany old age, and they are preventable.

  Deepak Chopra

  People, Age, Disease

  Source: www.peopleandpossibilities.com

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• For in all the world there are no people so piteous and forlorn as those who are forced to eat the bitter bread of dependency in their old age, and find how steep are the stairs of another man's house. Wherever they go they know themselves unwelcome. Wherever they are, they feel themselves a burden. There is no humiliation of the spirit they are not forced to endure. Their hearts are scarred all over with the stabs from cruel and callous speeches.

  Dorothy Dix

  Heart, Men, People

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• While we've youth in our hearts, we can never grow old.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Heart, Age, Youth

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• Old age is fifteen years older than I am.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Funny, Humor, Years

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I see old age not as something to hide from or dread (though there is much to oppose in the usual treatment of the old) but rather as something to embrace as the natural and inevitable end.

  Alix Kates Shulman

  Age, Usual, Natural

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• I have heard that whoever loves is in no condition old. I have heard that whenever the name of man is spoken, the doctrine of immortality is announced; it cleaves to his constitution. The mode of it baffles our wit, and no whisper comes to us from the other side. But the inference from the working of intellect, hiving knowledge, hiving skill,--at the end of life just ready to be born,--affirms the inspirations of affection and of the moral sentiment.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspiration, Men, Love Is

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.63, Harvard University Press

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• He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled.

  Gene Fowler

  Birthday, Respect, Profound

  Attributed to Gene Fowler in Judy Valon "In Your 60s", 2009.

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• It is the common vice of all, in old age, to be too intent upon our interests.

  Terence

  Age, Vices, Common

  Terence, Henry Thomas Riley, Christopher Smart (1853). “The Comedies of Terence: And the Fables of Phædrus”, p.251

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• Pleasure has its time; so too, has wisdom. Make love in thy youth, and in old age attend to thy salvation.

  Voltaire

  Making Love, Age, Youth

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• I frequently hear persons in old age say how they would live, if they were to live their lives over again: Resolved, That I will live just so as I can think I shall wish I had done, supposing I live to old age.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Thinking, Wish, Age

  Jonathan Edwards, Henry Rogers, Sereno Edwards Dwight, Edward Hickman (1834). “Works”, p.64

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• Old age is like an opium dream. Nothing seems real except the unreal.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Dream, Real, Age

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• Just as old age is creeping on space, And clouds come o'er the sunset of our day, They kindly leave us, though not quite alone, But in good company--the gout or stone.

  Lord Byron

  Sunset, Clouds, Space

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• A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.

  Meat Loaf

  Education, Wise, Age

  Song: Everything Louder Than Everything Else, Album: Bat Out of Hell II: Back into Hell, 1993

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• Almost all great painters in old age arrive at the same kind of broad, simplified style, as if they wanted to summarise the whole of their experience in a few strokes and blobs of colour.

  Kenneth Clark

  Style, Age, Kind

  "The Romantic Rebellion". Book by Kenneth Clark, Ch. 13: Degas, 1973.

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• Learning hath his infancy, when it is but beginning and almost childish; then his youth, when it is luxuriant and juvenile; then his strength of years, when it is solid and reduced; and lastly his old age, when it waxeth dry and exhaust.

  Francis Bacon

  Learning, Years, Age

  Francis Bacon (2015). “Bacon's Essays: Top Essays”, p.103, 谷月社

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• Between the years of ninety-two and a hundred and two, however, we shall be the ribald, useless, drunken, outcast person we have always wished to be. We shall have a long white beard and long white hair; we shall not walk at all, but recline in a wheel chair and bellow for alcoholic beverages; in the winter we shall sit before the fire with our feet in a bucket of hot water, a decanter of corn whiskey near at hand, and write ribald songs against organized society... We look forward to a disreputable, vigorous, unhonoured, and disorderly old age.

  Don Marquis

  Song, Writing, Winter

  "Modern Essays" edited by Christopher Morley, ("The Almost Perfect State"), 1921.

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• Men, like peaches and pears, grow sweet a little while before they begin to decay.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Sweet, Men, Age

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• 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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