Old Age Quotes - Page 20

• 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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• 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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• One of the things you realize about gettin older is that not everybody is goin to get older with you.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Age, Realizing

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• Even to your old age and gray hairs I am he, I am he who will sustain you. I have made you and I will carry you; I will sustain you and I will rescue you.

  Isaiah

  Hair, Environmental, Age

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• The older I get, the more fun it is to write young people. It's just a holiday from what is becoming old age, really.

  Andrew Davies

  Fun, Writing, Holiday

  Source: collider.com

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• Aristotle said that philosophy begins in wonder. I believe it also ends in wonder. The ultimate way in which we relate to the world as something sacred is by renewing our sense of wonder. That's why I'm so opposed to the kind of miracle-mongering we find in both new-age and old-age religion. We're attracted to pseudomiracles only because we've ceased to wonder at the world, at how amazing it is.

  Sam Keen

  Philosophy, Believe, Miracle

  Source: www.scottlondon.com

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• To a large extent, the aged in our society are ghettoized. Old people are seen as useless, bypassed by history, old-fashioned, in the way. So, not surprisingly, when we reach the official mark of old age, we're supposed to go gently into that good night, to get off center stage and hand over the spotlight. Old age is also surrounded by shame - the myth of impotence and inability.

  Sam Keen

  Good Night, Hands, People

  Source: www.scottlondon.com

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• I think it's best to pick a biographical subject who lives to a ripe old age. Older people tend to relax and speak their minds. They're dropping some of the masks that they've been wearing. There's a candor.

  David McCullough

  Thinking, People, Mind

  Source: www.neh.gov

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• If you grow up in the suburbs, you hear of people dying of old age, car wrecks, cancer. In the city, it's always people dying of violence or stray bullets.

  Suge Knight

  Growing Up, Cancer, Cities

  "The Life and Times of Suge Knight". Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. June 18, 2007.

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• Education is the food of youth, the delight of old age, the ornament of prosperity, the refuge and comfort of adversity, and the provocation to grace in the soul.

  Saint Augustine

  Adversity, Soul, Grace

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• So you see, old age is really not so bad. May you come to know the condition!

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Age, May, Knows

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• What am I then...? Everything that I have seen, heard, and observed I have collected and exploited. My works have been nourished by countless different individuals, by innocent and wise ones, people of intelligence and dunces. Childhood, maturity and old age all have brought me their thoughts....their perspectives on life. I have often reaped what others have sowed. My work is the work of a collective being that bears the name Goethe.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Wise, Maturity, Names

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• We are at that very point in time when a 400-year old age is rattling in its death bed and another is struggling to be born.

  Dee Hock

  Struggle, Years, Age

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• The accumulation of great wealth is, in many instances, the effect of paying too little for the labor that produced it, the consequence of which is that the working people perish in old age and the employer abounds in affluence.

  Thomas Paine

  People, Age, Littles

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• Old age is women's hell.

  Ninon de L'Enclos

  Age, Hell

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• (Wine is) the nurse of old age.

  Galen

  Wine, Nurse, Age

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• In my old age, I have come to believe that love is not a noun but a verb. An action. Like water, it flows to its own current. If you were to corner it in a dam, true love is so bountiful it would flow over. Even in separation, even in death, it moves and changes. It lives within memory, in the haunting of a touch, the transience of a smell, or the nuance of a sigh. It seeks to leave a trace like a fossil in the sand, a leaf burning into baking asphalt.

  Alyson Richman

  Memories, Believe, Moving

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• In my old age, I was at last being permitted to make the discovery that lovemaking gets better and better with time, if it's with someone you care for.

  Patricia Nell Warren

  Discovery, Get Better, Age

  Patricia Nell Warren (1988). “The front runner”, Plume

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• Everything had kept getting less, they'd had to leave behind more and more baggage, or else it was taken from them, as though they were now too weak to carry all those things that are part of life, as though someone were trying to force them into old age by relieving them of all this.

  Jenny Erpenbeck

  Taken, Age, Trying

  Jenny Erpenbeck (2011). “Visitation”, p.58, Granta Books

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• Faith, courage, optimism, looking forward, bring us new life and more life. Futility, frustration, living in the past are not only characteristic of 'old age'; they contribute to it.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Frustration, Past, Optimism

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• The old folk, time's doting chronicles.

  William Shakespeare

  Age, Folks, Chronicles

  William Shakespeare (2016). “King Henry IV Part 2: Third Series”, p.368, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• In old age, mirror is not a friend!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Mirrors, Age

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• Old age is a humble victory in this killing universe.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Humble, Victory, Age

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• Little by little old age renders the body less powerful.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Powerful, Age, Body

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• Old age takes in part savoury wisdom for its food - see to that your old age will not lack in nourishment.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Age, Nourishment

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