Charles Caleb Colton Quotes About Old Age

Quotes about: Old Age

• How small a portion of our life it is that we really enjoy! In youth we are looking forward to things that are to come; in old age we are looking backward to things that are gone past; in manhood, although we appear indeed to be more occupied in things that are present, yet even that is too often absorbed in vague determinations to be vastly happy on some future day when we have time.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Determination, Past, Age

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.101

• A youth without fire is followed by an old age without experience.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Fire, Age, Youth

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”, p.57

• Cheerfulness ought to be the viaticum vitae of their life to the old; age without cheerfulness is a Lapland winter without a sun.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Winter, Age, Lapland

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”

• We devote the activity of our youth to revelry and the decrepitude of our old age to repentance: and we finish the farce by bequeathing our dead bodies to the chancel, which when living, we interdicted from the church.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Age, Church, Farce

  Charles Caleb Colton (1866). “Lacon: or, Many things in few words”, p.343

• There are three kinds of power,--wealth, strength, and talent; but as old age always weakens, often destroys, the two latter, the aged are induced to cling with the greater avidity to the former.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Power, Two, Age

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.26

• The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Age, Excess, Waste

  Charles Caleb Colton (1821). “Lacon: or, Many things in few words”, p.51

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