Aging Quotes - Page 40

• With age, the mind grows slower and more wily.

  Mason Cooley

  Mind, Age, Grows

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• The children of childish parents age quickly.

  Mason Cooley

  Children, Parent, Age

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• The imaginary audience for my life is growing small and silent.

  Mason Cooley

  Growing, Life Is, Silent

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• The older we become, the more certain our future.

  Mason Cooley

  Destiny, Certain, Our Future

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• With decrepitude, longevity has overshot the mark.

  Mason Cooley

  Mark, Longevity

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• I am now old enough to make common cause with my predecessors against my successors.

  Mason Cooley

  Causes, Common, Enough

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• Youth demands more than ordinary life. Age clings to it.

  Mason Cooley

  Age, Ordinary, Demand

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• As the tenor roars his passion, I think sadly of my spreading middle, and his.

  Mason Cooley

  Passion, Thinking, Middle

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• The noisy vacancy of youth, the quiet vacancy of age.

  Mason Cooley

  Age, Vacancy, Youth

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• Growth provides novel experiences for youth; decay the same, alas, for age.

  Mason Cooley

  Growth, Age, Decay

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• After sixty, the self-questioning of middle age is obsolete.

  Mason Cooley

  Self Questioning, Age, Obsolete

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• With age, I have become both more pious and more shameless.

  Mason Cooley

  Age, Shameless, Pious

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• Old women even forget how to love their sons. The heart gets worn out, Monsieur.

  Albert Camus

  Heart, Son, How To Love

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• It's rather grisly, isnt it, how soon a living man becomes nothing more than a collection of stocks and bonds and debts and real estate?

  John Dos Passos

  Real, Men, Debt

  John Dos Passos (1973). “The Fourteenth Chronicle: Letters and Diaries of John Dos Passos”, Harvard Common Press

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• The politics of the exile are fever,
  revenge, daydream,
  theater of the aging convalescent.
  You wait in the wings and rehearse.
  You wait and wait.

  Marge Piercy

  Revenge, War, Wings

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• A snow year, a rich year.

  George Herbert

  Years, Snow, Rich

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.296

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• I smoke cigars because at my age if I don't have something to hang on to I might fall down.

  George Burns

  Fall, Age, Might

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• People who begin sentences with "I may be old-fashioned but--" are usually not only old-fashioned but wrong. I never thought the time would come when I should catch myself leading off with that crack. But I feel it coming on right now.

  Robert Benchley

  People, May, Cracks

  Robert Benchley (1976). “Chips Off the Old Benchley”, Amereon Limited

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• Now, in my middle age,
  about nineteen in the head I'd say,
  I am rowing, I am rowing.

  Anne Sexton

  Age, Nineteen, Rowing

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.229, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I did not know the woman I would be
  nor that blood would bloom in me
  each month like an exotic flower,
  nor that children,
  two monuments,
  would break from between my legs.

  Anne Sexton

  Children, Growing Up, Flower

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• One thing is certain the only thing that makes you younger or older is that nothing can happen that is different from what you expected and when that happens and it mostly does happen everything is different from what you expected then there is no difference between
  being younger or older.

  Gertrude Stein

  Differences, Doe, Different

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• We talked about and that has always been a puzzle to me
  why American men think that success is everything
  when they know that eighty percent of them are not
  going to succeed more than to just keep going and why
  if they are not why do they not keep on being
  interested in the things that interested them when
  they were college men and why American men different
  from English men do not get more interesting as they
  get older.

  Gertrude Stein

  Success, College, Men

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• How foolish to think that one can ever slam the door in the face of age. Much wiser to be polite and gracious and ask him to lunch in advance.

  Noel Coward

  Thinking, Doors, Lunch

  Noel Coward (2008). “The Letters of Noel Coward”, p.326, Vintage

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• A man is sane morally at thirty, rich mentally at forty, wise spiritually at fifty-or never!

  William Osler

  Wise, Men, Fifty

  Sir William Osler (2001). “Osler's "a Way of Life" and Other Addresses, with Commentary and Annotations”, p.324, Duke University Press

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• Chastity prays for me, piety sings,
  Innocence sweetens my last black breath,
  Modesty hides my thighs in her wings,
  And all the deadly virtues plague my death!

  Dylan Thomas

  Wings, Black, Lasts

  Dylan Thomas, Daniel Jones (2003). “The Poems of Dylan Thomas”, p.238, New Directions Publishing

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