Logan Pearsall Smith Quotes About Age

Quotes about: Age

• The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Blood, Hygiene, People

  Afterthoughts (1931) "Age and Death"

• Youth is the time for adventures of the body, but age for the triumphs of the mind.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Birthday, Adventure, Mind

• There is more felicity on the far side of baldness than young men can possibly imagine.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Men, Age, Sides

  Afterthoughts (1931) "Age and Death"

• But why wasn't I born, alas, in an age of Adjectives; why can one no longer write of silver-shedding Tears and moon-tailed Peacocks, of eloquent Death, of the Negro and star-enameled Night?

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Death, Stars, Writing

• This nice and subtle happiness of reading, this joy not chilled by age, this polite and unpunished vice, this selfish, serene life-long intoxication.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Selfish, Nice, Reading

• Growing old is not a gradual decline, but a series of drops, full of sorrow, from one ledge to another below it.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Sorrow, Age, Ledges

  Logan Pearsall Smith (1931). “Afterthoughts”

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