Senility Quotes

• There are three signs of senility. The first sign is that a man forgets his theorems. The second sign is that he forgets to zip up. The third sign is that he forgets to zip down.

  Paul Erdos

  Men, Three, Firsts

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• I went from adolescence to senility, trying to bypass maturity.

  Tom Lehrer

  Maturity, Trying, Bypass

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I am in the prime of senility.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Age, Aging, Prime

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• When the going gets tough, the tough reinvent.

  RuPaul

  Change, Naps, Tough Times

  RuPaul (2010). “Workin' It!: RuPaul's Guide to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Style”, p.22, Harper Collins

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• In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, old people in America had prayed, "Please God, don't let me look poor." In the year 2000, they prayed, "Please God, don't let me look old." Sexiness was equated with youth, and youth ruled. The most widespread age-related disease was not senility but juvenility.

  Tom Wolfe

  Years, America, People

  Tom Wolfe (2010). “Hooking Up”, p.1929, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• Term limits would cure both senility and seniority- both terrible legislative diseases.

  Harry S. Truman

  Political, Term Limits, Disease

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• When the going gets tough, the tough eat ribs.

  Nora Roberts

  Naps, Tough Times, Chocolate

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• It is a pledge that senility has not the last say in everything.

  Shane Leslie

  Lasts, Pledge

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• You know, I have found a new way to get high and stay spaced out for hours on end, and the government can't stop me... It's called senility.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Government, Getting High, Way

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• God how I hate new countries: They are older than the old, more sophisticated, much more conceited, only young in a certain puerile vanity more like senility than anything.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Country, Hate, Conceited

  D. H. Lawrence, Warren Roberts, James T. Boulton, Elizabeth Mansfield (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.250, Cambridge University Press

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• For the general practitioner a well-used library is one of the few correctives of the premature senility which is so apt to take him.

  William Osler

  Library, Used, Wells

  Sir William Osler (2001). “Osler's "a Way of Life" and Other Addresses, with Commentary and Annotations”, p.250, Duke University Press

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• The only difference between a rut and a grave are the dimensions.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Change, Stress, Humor

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• When the going gets tough, the tough make cookies.

  Erma Bombeck

  Naps, Tough Times, Chocolate

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• When the going gets tough, the tough go drinking.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Drinking, Naps, Tough Times

  FaceBook post by Bret Easton Ellis from Jan 01, 2014

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• When I was very young and the urge to be someplace was on me, I was assured by mature people that maturity would cure this itch.

  John Steinbeck

  Maturity, People, Mature

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.8, Penguin

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• When the going gets tough, the tough get a librarian.

  Joan Bauer

  Reading, Book, Naps

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• When the going gets tough, the tough take a nap.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Sleep, Naps, Tough Times

  "Idle thoughts" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. July 28, 2006.

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• There is nothing worse than an idle hour, with no occupation offering. People who have many such hours are simply animals waiting docilely for death. We all come to that state soon or late. It is the curse of senility.

  H. L. Mencken

  Death, Animal, Offering

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.86, Knopf

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• What really scares me is Alzheimer's or premature senility, losing that ability to read and enjoy and to write. And you do it, and some days maybe aren't so good, and then some days, you really catch a wave, and it's as good as it ever was.

  Stephen King

  Writing, Alzheimer's, Scare

  "Stephen King wants to reach out and grab you — with his writing". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. October 6, 2016.

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• Inflation is the senility of democracies.

  Sylvia Townsend Warner

  Democracy, Economics, Inflation

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• I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142. This is no time to be flitting about the earth. I must cease from the activities proper to youth and begin to take on the dignities and gravities and inertia proper to that season of honorable senility which is on its way.

  Mark Twain

  Age, Earth, Way

  Mark Twain (2015). “Complete Letters of Mark Twain”, p.689, Litres

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• I am in the prime of my senility.

  Joel Chandler Harris

  Prime

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• In the modern technoindustrial culture, it is possible to proceed from infancy into senility without ever knowing manhood.

  Edward Abbey

  Knowing, Culture, Modern

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.25, RosettaBooks

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• And so I ask myself: 'Where are your dreams?' And I shake my head and mutter: 'How the years go by!' And I ask myself again: 'What have you done with those years? Where have you buried your best moments? Have you really lived? Look,' I say to myself, 'how cold it is becoming all over the world!' And more years will pass and behind them will creep grim isolation. Tottering senility will come hobbling, leaning on a crutch, and behind these will come unrelieved boredom and despair. The world of fancies will fade, dreams will wilt and die and fall like autumn leaves from the trees. . . .

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Dream, Fall, Autumn

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• Superficial observers have long criticized the United States for making a fetish of youth. This is unfair. Uniquely among modern organs of public and private administration, its national legislature rewards senility.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Long, United States, Rewards

  "The United States". The New York magazine article on November 15, 1971, reprinted in "A View from the Stands", 1986.

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