Old Age Quotes - Page 31

• Was it the forgetfulness of old age or personal incapacity that made the man able to say please but not thank you?

  Yann Martel

  Men, Age, Able

  Yann Martel (2010). “Beatrice & Virgil”, p.91, Knopf Canada

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• In their youth, mortals behave more like nymphs. Adulthood seems impossibly distant, let alone the enfeeblement of old age. But ponderously, inevitably, it overtakes you.

  Brandon Mull

  Nymphs, Age, Youth

  Brandon Mull, Brandon Dorman (2007). “Fablehaven”, p.146, Simon and Schuster

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• That's what happens when people reach old age; nobody remembers they've been bastards too.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  People, Age, Remember

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• The laziness of adolescence is a rehearsal for the incapacity of old age.

  Idries Shah

  Age, Laziness, Rehearsal

  Idries Shah (1983). “Reflections”, p.147, Octagon Press Ltd

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• At any given time, if you live long enough, old age catches you . . . the only choices we have in life are either the impairment of old age or early death.

  Rosa Montero

  Long, Choices, Age

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• A person's life from infancy to old age is nothing else than an advance from the world towards heaven, the last stage of which is death; the actual transition from one life to the next.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Heaven, Age, Transition

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• In this respect early youth is exactly like old age; it is a time of waiting for a big trip to an unknown destination. The chief difference is that youth waits for the morning limited and age waits for the night train

  Bruce Catton

  Morning, Night, Differences

  Bruce Catton (1987). “Waiting for the Morning Train: An American Boyhood”, p.39, Wayne State University Press

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• In Indiana we had a queen we named Alice which lived to the ripe old age of eight years and two months and did excellent work in her seventh year. There can be no doubt about the authenticity of this statement. We sold her to John Chapel of Oakland City, Indiana, and she was the only queen in his yard with wings clipped. This, however is a rare exception. At the time I was experimenting with artificial combs with wooden cells in which the queen laid.

  Jay Smith

  Queens, Eight, Cells

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• We retire too early and we die too young, our prime of life should be in the 70's and old age should not come until we are almost 100.

  Joseph Pilates

  Inspirational, Motivational, Fitness

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• Today, when death and old age are increasingly concealed behind euphemisms and comforting baby talk, and life is threatened with being smothered in the mass consumption of hypnotic mechanized vulgarity, the need to confront man with the reality of his situation is greater than ever. For the dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its senselessness; to accept it freely, without fear, without illusions - and to laugh at it.

  Martin Esslin

  Baby, Lying, Reality

  Martin Esslin (2009). “The Theatre of the Absurd”, p.429, Vintage

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• After a stronghold has been made of the bones, it is covered with flesh and blood, and there dwell in it old age and death, pride and deceit.

  Friedrich Muller

  Lying, Pride, Blood

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• Thus this Earth resembles a great animall or rather an inanimate vegetable, draws in aethereal breath for its dayly refreshment and vitall ferment and transpires again grosses exhalations. And, according to the condition of all other things living, ought to have its time of beginning, youth, old age and perishing.

  Isaac Newton

  Vegetables, Age, Earth

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• Very odd, old age. Always knew it would happen, if I was lucky. I just didn't expect it so soon.

  Josephine Hart

  Age, Lucky, Odd

  Josephine Hart (1991). “Damage: a novel”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• The delights of reading impart the vivacity of youth even to old age.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Reading, Age, Library

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• Old age is not a time of life. It is a condition of the body. It is not time that ages the body, it is abuse that does.

  Herbert M. Shelton

  Abuse, Age, Doe

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• I don't tap dance, and I don't think you can learn to tap dance in three weeks at my ripe old age.

  Huey Lewis

  Thinking, Age, Tap Dancers

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• I have observed that, generally speaking, network sports announcers did not tend to live to a ripe old age. On the other hand, I had noticed that baseball announcers seemed to go right on forever. Bob Elson has been calling balls and strikes since the beginning of time. Harry Caray must have started with Abner Doubleday, and was still going strong.

  Lindsey Nelson

  Sports, Baseball, Strong

  Lindsey Nelson (1985). “Hello everybody, I'm Lindsey Nelson”, William Morrow & Company

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• Only 1 percent of the homosexual population in America will die of old age. The average life expectancy for a homosexual in the United States of America is 43 years of age. A lesbian can only expect to live to be 45 years of age. Homosexuals represent 2 percent of the population, yet today they're carrying 60 percent of the known cases of syphilis.

  Rod Parsley

  Average, Years, America

  "Gay Bowel Syndrome? Yeah, Right" by David Holthouse, www.alternet.org. February 8, 2006.

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• Marriage is more permanent than love. Love may be eternal, but it is not permanent. It may continue forever and forever, but there is no inner necessity for it to continue. It is like a flower: bloomed in the morning, by the evening gone. It is not like the rock. Marriage is more permanent; you can rely on it. In old age it will be helpful.

  Rajneesh

  Marriage, Morning, Flower

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• May you keep dreaming until the day you die. May imagination overtake memory. May you die young at a ripe old age.

  Mark Batterson

  Dream, Memories, Imagination

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• Sibelius justified the austerity of his old age by saying that while other composers were engaged in manufacturing cocktails, he offered the public pure cold water.

  Neville Cardus

  Water, Age, Cocktails

  Sir Neville Cardus (1966). “The Delights of Music: A Critic's Choice”, London : Gollancz

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• Possibly the best suggestion in condensed form, as to how to live, was given by my old Headmaster, Dr. Haig Brown, in 1904, when he wrote his Recipe for Old Age. A diet moderate and spare, Freedom from base financial care, Abundant work and little leisure, A love of duty more than pleasure, An even and contented mind In charity with all mankind, Some thoughts too sacred for display In the broad light of common day, A peaceful home, a loving wife, Children, who are a crown of life; These lengthen out the years of man Beyond the Psalmist's narrow span.

  Robert Baden-Powell

  Life, Peace, Children

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• Among us, I am happy to say, old age is honorable, and regarded as a blessing from the Lord. It is our duty to desire to live long upon the earth, that we may do as much good as we possibly can. I esteem it a great privilege to have the opportunity of living in mortality. The Lord has sent us here "for a wise and glorious purpose," and it should be our business to find out what that purpose is and then to order our lives accordingly.

  Lorenzo Snow

  Life, Wise, Business

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• Life is not stationary. Seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, and years all tick away at the same clip for everyone. No age-group can be isolated. None of us can settle into infancy, youth, middle age, or old age. We all grow older, and, incidentally, it is an exciting thought if the accent is on growing. "Though our outward man perish," said Paul, "yet the inward man is renewed day by day" (2 Cor. 4:16; italics added).

  Hugh W. Pinnock

  Life, Men, Years

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• Other relaxations are peculiar to certain times, places and stages of life, but the study of letters is the nourishment of our youth, and the joy of our old age. They throw an additional splendor on prosperity, and are the resource and consolation of adversity; they delight at home, and are no embarrassment abroad; in short, they are company to us at night, our fellow travelers on a journey, and attendants in our rural recesses.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Life, Home, Adversity

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