Old Age Quotes - Page 21

• Let us cherish and love old age; for it is full of pleasure, if you know how to use it. The best morsel is reserved for last.

  Seneca the Younger

  Age, And Love, Use

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• We do ourselves and others a disservice when we make old age something to be feared. Life is not a resource to be used up, so that the older we get, the less life we have left. Life is the accumulation of wisdom, love and experience of people encountered and obstacles overcome. The longer we live, the more life we possess.

  Harold S. Kushner

  People, Age, Overcoming

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• One of the good elements of old age is that we no longer have to prove anything, to ourselves or to anyone else. We are what we are.

  May Sarton

  Age, Elements, Prove

  May Sarton (2014). “The House by the Sea: A Journal”, p.143, Open Road Media

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• Most people do not understand until old age what Plato tells them when they are young.

  Plutarch

  Plato, People, Age

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• Zeus it seems has given us from youth to old age a nice ball of wool to wind-nothing but wars upon wars until we shall perish every one.

  Homer

  War, Nice, Wind

  Homer (2015). “The Iliad”, Penguin

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• Animals are born and bred in litters. Solitude grows blessed and peaceful only in old age.

  George Santayana

  Blessed, Animal, Peaceful

  George Santayana (1986). “The Works of George Santayana”

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• When you're 20 you can put a ton of old-age prosthetics on and be an old guy, but when you're 70 you can't play a 20-year-old.

  Bob Odenkirk

  Years, Play, Guy

  Source: www.salon.com

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• We have a great regard for old age when it is bottled.

  Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar

  Age, Regard

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• Many old people receive pensions for no other reason, it seems to me, but as a compensation for having lived a long time ago.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Long, People, Age

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “The Maine Woods: The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume III (of 20)”, p.74, Trajectory Inc

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• As a man grows older, his ability to sit still and follow indoor occupations increases. He grows vespertinal in his habits as theevening of life approaches, till at last he comes forth only just before sundown, and gets all the walk that he requires in half an hour.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Age, Half

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.394, Penguin

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• I've read a couple of reviews that say I'm getting harder in my old age but I don't think that's true at all. I think that you can't help but become a little cynical about life and love but I'm still a romantic, I'm still an idealist.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Couple, Life And Love, Thinking

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• Arbitrary power is the natural object of temptation to a prince, as wine and women to a young fellow, or a bribe to a judge, or avarice to old age.

  Jonathan Swift

  Wine, Judging, Temptation

  Jonathan Swift (1861). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: With Cop'ous Notes and Additions”, p.612

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• Millions of people are afraid of the past, the future, old age, insanity and death. But fear is a thought in your mind. This means that you are afraid of your own thoughts.

  Joseph Murphy

  Mean, Past, People

  Joseph Murphy (2015). “The Power of Your Subconscious Mind”, p.175, Om Books International

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• It might be better - more comfortable - to have a dog and two cats. All the love is focused on the cats and the dog. Am I right or wrong here? Have you seen it? At the end of this marriage, comes old age and loneliness.

  Pope Francis

  Dog, Loneliness, Cat

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• The rapid progress of the sciences makes me sorry, at times, that I was born so soon. Imagine the power that man will have over matter, a few hundred years from now. We may learn how to remove gravity from large masses, and float them over great distances. Agriculture will double its produce with less labor. All diseases will surely be cured... even old age. If only the moral sciences could be improved as well. Perhaps men would cease to be wolves to one another... and human beings could learn to be human.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Sorry, Distance, Men

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• I have always paid income tax. I object only when it reaches a stage when I am threatened with having nothing left for my old age - which is due to start next Tuesday or Wednesday.

  Noel Coward

  Birthday, Tuesday, Age

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• Old age isn't a battle; old age is a massacre.

  Philip Roth

  Age, Battle, Massacres

  Philip Roth (2006). “Everyman”, Random House Large Print Publishing

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• The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.

  George Santayana

  Birthday, Passion, Pride

  George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.22, Рипол Классик

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• Just as the blurring between childhood and adulthood has produced the kidult, so the stretching of middle into old age has fostered another peculiar chimera: septuagenarians with apoptosis sporting the depeche mode.

  Will Self

  Childhood, Age, Peculiar

  "You're Looking Very Well by Lewis Wolpert - review" by Will Self, www.theguardian.com. May 1, 2011.

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• It is not well to make great changes in old age.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Change, Age, Wells

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• Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a minimum.

  Thomas Szasz

  Childhood, Fatherhood, Age

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• I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I'm not old yet!

  Tina Turner

  Giving, Age, Aging

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• A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.

  Miguel de Unamuno

  Love, Birthday, Death

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• No sociologist should think himself too good, even in his old age, to make tens of thousands of quite trivial computations in his head and perhaps for months at a time.

  Max Weber

  Thinking, Age, Months

  Max Weber (2009). “From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology”, p.135, Routledge

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• As an American, you have a right to good health care that is effective, accessible, and affordable, that serves you from infancy through old age, that allows you to go to practitioners and facilities of your choosing, and that offers a broad range of therapeutic options.

  Andrew Weil

  Age, Care, Good Health

  Andrew Weil, M.D. (2010). “You Can't Afford to Get Sick: Your Guide to Optimum Health and Health Care”, p.8, Penguin

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