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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• For two years I watched my parents' lives wind to a close. This made me aware of old age as a one stage, the final one, of a long journey.

  Alix Kates Shulman

  Journey, Years, Wind

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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 feel now, in my impending old age, very lucky. I just can't tell you how lucky I feel, that I've managed to first of all, stay alive this long, in reasonably good health, and that I've been able to do what I want to do.

  Paul Auster

  Long, Age, Firsts

  Interview with Lotte Hansen, www.timeout.com.

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

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Dream, Real, Age

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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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• 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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• Indeed, the idea that doubt can be heroic, if it is locked into a structure as grand as that of the paintings of Cezanne's old age, is one of the keys to our century. A touchstone of modernity itself.

  Robert Hughes

  Keys, Ideas, Doubt

  Robert Hughes (2013). “The Shock of the New”, p.30, Knopf

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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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• I cannot always sympathize with that demand which we hear so frequently for cheap things. Things may be too cheap. They are too cheap when the man or woman who produces them upon the farm or the man or woman who produces them in the factory does not get out of them living wages with a margin for old age and for a dowry for the incidents that are to follow. I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth or shapes it into a garment will starve in the process.

  Benjamin Harrison

  Men, Age, Doe

  "Rain Still Follows Him: The President's Vermont Trip Marked by Storms". Speech in Rutland, Vermont, reported in The New York Times, August 29, 1891 issue p. 5,

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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 know of nothing more laughable than a doctor who does not die of old age.

  Voltaire

  Health, Doctors, Medicine

  Letter to Charles Feriol 6 November (1767)

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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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• Age in a virtuous person, of either sex, carries in it an authority which makes it preferable to all the pleasures of youth.

  Richard Steele

  Sex, Age, Youth

  Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1854). “The Spectator”, p.3

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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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• 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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