Old Age Quotes - Page 20

• A sensual and intemperate youth hands over a worn-out body to old age.
  [Lat., Libidinosa etenim et intemperans adolescentiam effoetum corpus tradit senectuti.]

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Hands, Sensual, Age

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• Rashness is the companion of youth, prudence of old age.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Age, Youth, Companion

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• That folly of old age which is called dotage is peculiar to silly old men, not to age itself.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Silly, Men, Age

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• While strength and years permit, endure labor; soon bent old age will come with silent foot.
  [Lat., Dum vires annique sinunt, tolerate labores.
  Jam veniet tacito curva senecta pede.]

  Ovid

  Feet, Years, Age

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• They are the most painful tears in the world ... the tears of the aged ... for they come from dried beds where the emotions have long burned low.

  Bess Streeter Aldrich

  Long, Tears, Age

  Bess Streeter Aldrich (1994). “A Lantern in Her Hand”, p.293, U of Nebraska Press

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• Never have I enjoyed youth so thoroughly as I have in my old age. In writing Dialogues in Limbo, The Last Puritan, and now all these descriptions of the friends of my youth and the young friends of my middle age, I have drunk the pleasure of life more pure, more joyful than it ever was when mingled with all the hidden anxieties and little annoyances of actual living. Nothing is inherently and invincibly young except spirit. And spirit can enter a human being perhaps better in the quiet of old age and dwell there more undisturbed than in the turmoil of adventure.

  George Santayana

  Writing, Adventure, Young Friends

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• Old age is not synonymous with being 'glad to die.

  Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  Age, Glad, Dies

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• Old age creeps on us ere we think it nigh.

  John Dryden

  Thinking, Age, Creeps

  Juvenal, John Dryden, Nahum Tate, Persius, Richard Duke (1713). “The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis: and of Aulus Persius Flaccus”, p.150

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• But with what incessant and grievous ills is old age surrounded!

  Juvenal

  Age, Incessant

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• For the short-lived bloom and contracted span of brief and wretched life is fast fleeting away! While we are drinking and calling for garlands, ointments, and women, old age steals swiftly on with noiseless step.

  Juvenal

  Drinking, Age, Fleeting

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• You will be old-fashioned one day. It's more shocking than getting old.

  Enid Bagnold

  Age, One Day, Old Fashioned

  Enid Bagnold (1970). “Four plays”

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• That's one of the privileges of old age - you can give plenty of advice 'cause most folks think that's all you got left anyway.

  Gloria Naylor

  Thinking, Giving, Advice

  Gloria Naylor (1990). “Selected from the Women of Brewster Place”, Signal Hill Publications

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• Oh! if to dance all night, and dress all day,
  Charm'd the small-pox, or chas'd old age away;
  . . . .
  To patch, nay ogle, might become a saint,
  Nor could it sure be such a sin to paint.

  Alexander Pope

  Night, Dancing, Age

  Alexander Pope (1822). “The Works of Alexander Pope”, p.373

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• Great is Youth--equally great is Old Age--great are Day and Night.
  Great is Wealth--great is Poverty--great is Expression-great is Silence.

  Walt Whitman

  Night, Greatness, Expression

  Walt Whitman (2011). “Leaves of Grass, 1860: The 150th Anniversary Facsimile Edition”, p.200, University of Iowa Press

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• Sign of old age: distress at all leave-takings, all separations. And the sadness of memories, because I'm aware they're condemned to death.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Memories, Sadness, Age

  Simone de Beauvoir (1977). “Force of Circumstance: Hard times”

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• Society turns away from the aged worker as though he belonged to another species. That is why the whole question is buried in a conspiracy of silence. Old age exposes the failure of our entire civilization.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Civilization, Silence, Age

  Simone de Beauvoir (1972). “La vieillesse”

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• A man's diary is a record in youth of his sentiments, in middle age of his actions, in old age of his reflections.

  John Quincy Adams

  Reflection, Men, Age

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• The silver-leaved birch retains in its old age a soft bark; there are some such men.

  Berthold Auerbach

  Men, Age, Silver

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• if you don't want to get old, don't mellow.

  Linda Ellerbee

  Age, Want, Mellow

  Linda Ellerbee (1993). “Move On”

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• certain very old people reach an age where every funeral becomes some sort of insane confirmation of strength, rather than of vulnerability, as it is when we are in our thirties or forties and our friends die.

  Erica Jong

  People, Funeral, Insane

  Erica Jong (2013). “Shylock's Daughter: A Novel of Love in Venice”, p.136, Open Road Media

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

  Red Skelton

  Memories, Humorous, Loss

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

  Madame de Stael

  Age, Lasts, Steps

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