Old Age Quotes - Page 18

• [On her 101-year-old sister and herself, at 103:] We have a lot to do ... People don't understand this. They think we're sitting around in rocking chairs, which isn't at all true. Why, we don't even own a rocking chair.

  Sarah Louise Delany

  Thinking, Years, People

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• To make good use of life, one should have in youth the experience of advanced years, and in old age the vigor of youth.

  Stanisław I Leszczyński

  Life, Should Have, Years

  François duc de La Rochefoucauld, Stanisław I Leszczyński (King of Poland) (1851). “Moral Reflections, Sentences and Maxims of Francis, Duc de la Rochefoucauld”, p.153

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• How many persons fancy they have experience simply because they have grown old!

  Stanisław I Leszczyński

  Age, Fancy, Persons

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• One of the duties of old-age, is the management of time. The less that remains to us, the more valuable we ought to consider it.

  Anne-Therese de Marguenat de Courcelles

  Age, Duty, Valuable

  "Essays on Friendship and Old-Age". Book by Anne-Thérèse de Marguenat de Courcelles, translated by Eliza Ball Hayley, p. 121, 1780.

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• Conquest, tyranny, treachery, and the clash of cultures bring about corrupt societies, and so does old age. Sometimes the five faces of corruption are visible at the same time.

  Robert Payne

  Age, Faces, Doe

  Robert Payne (1975). “The Corrupt Society: From Ancient Greece to Present-Day America”, Praeger Publishers

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• Old age is a disease from which there is no recovery but the old nun's recent attack had certainly been brought on chiefly by the fatigue of so much travelling.

  Murasaki Shikibu

  Travel, Recovery, Age

  Murasaki Shikibu (2011). “The Tale of Genji”, p.1360, Tuttle Publishing

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• But the man and woman of seventy assume to know all, they have outlived their hope, they renounce aspiration, accept the actual for the necessary and talk down to the young. Let them then become organs of the Holy Ghost; let them be lovers; let them behold truth; and their eyes are uplifted, their wrinkles smoothed, they are perfumed again with hope and power.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  God, Eye, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.74, Penguin

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• Old age is a strange country, and most of us enter it unwillingly.

  Terri E Apter

  Country, Age, Strange

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• Ideas are the old-age of art. Artists have to keep young; they must not think too much - thought is death, while art is life. Such was Emile's viewpoint.

  Laura Riding

  Art, Thinking, Ideas

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• Some one has said of a fine and honorable old age, that it was the childhood of immortality.

  John Wolcot

  Childhood, Age, Immortality

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• The greatest danger to an adequate old-age security plan is rising prices. A rise of 2% a year in prices would cut the purchasing power of pensions about 45% in 30 years. The greatest danger of rising prices is from wages rising faster than output per man-hour.... Whether the nation succeeds in providing adequate security for retired workers depends in large measure upon the wage policies of trade unions.

  Sumner Slichter

  Cutting, Men, Years

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• The most consistent characteristic of awakened teachers and people I have met is a childlike nature. They laugh, cry, twinkle, and joke, all with a spontaneity born of freedom. Their faces are fluid and reflect a timeless sweetness, even into old age.

  Catherine Ingram

  Teacher, Laughing, People

  Catherine Ingram (2004). “Passionate Presence”, p.165, Penguin

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• There is only one way to be revived and healed from our backslidings so that we may become fruitful even in old age. We must take a steady look at the glory of Christ in His special character, in His grace and work, as shown to us in the Scripture.

  John Owen

  Character, Grace, Age

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• An old man, broken with the storms of state,
  Is come to lay his weary bones among ye;
  Give him a little earth for charity!

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Broken, Giving

  'Henry VIII' (1613) act 4, sc. 2, l. 21

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• In old persons, when thus fully expressed, we often observe a fair, plump, perennial waxen complexion, which indicates that all the ferment of earlier days has subsided into serenity of thought and behavior.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Serenity, Age, Behavior

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1871). “Society and Solitude and Other Essays”, p.292

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• I have heard that whoever loves is in no condition old. I have heard that whenever the name of man is spoken, the doctrine of immortality is announced; it cleaves to his constitution. The mode of it baffles our wit, and no whisper comes to us from the other side. But the inference from the working of intellect, hiving knowledge, hiving skill,--at the end of life just ready to be born,--affirms the inspirations of affection and of the moral sentiment.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspiration, Men, Love Is

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.63, Harvard University Press

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• One generation abandons the enterprises of another like stranded vessels.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Age, Generations, Youth

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.19

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• The passions of youth are not more dangerous to health than is the lukewarmness of old age.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Passion, Age, Youth

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• The older a fool is, the worse he is.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Age, Fool, Folly

  "Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II". Book by Thomas Fuller, 1727.

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• Turn thy thoughts now to the consideration of thy life, thy life as a child, as a youth, thy manhood, thy old age, for in these also every change was a death. Is this anything to fear?

  Marcus Aurelius

  Children, Age, Youth

  Marcus Aurelius (2016). “Meditations”, p.65, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• But no matter how they make you feel, you should always watch elders carefully. They were you and you will be them. You carry the seeds of your old age in you at this very moment, and they hear the echoes of their childhood each time they see you.

  Kent Nerburn

  Echoes, Childhood, Age

  Kent Nerburn (1999). “Letters to My Son: A Father's Wisdom on Manhood, Women, Life and Love”, p.176, New World Library

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• An American is a guy, a rich guy with a family, a decent guy with a family with as many kids as he likes, doing what he wants, working with people that he likes, and enjoying himself to his very old age.

  Jack Kirby

  Kids, People, Guy

  Interview with Gary Groth, www.tcj.com. February 1990.

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• I didn't start the business to make a pile of money. I did it to preserve myself for old age.

  Elrey Borge Jeppesen

  Age, Aviation, Flight

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• The ultimate self is free from sin, free from old age, free from death and grief, free from hunger and thirst, which desires nothing and imagines nothing.

  Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

  Spiritual, Grief, Self

  Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Daniel E. Bassuk (1987). “Incarnation in Hinduism and Christianity: the myth of the god-man”, Humanities Press Intl

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• I'm finding that everything sells. I've been toying with the fact that I have this big giant glass jar with the metal screw lid on it that's full of ribbons and memorabilia from conventions and stuff. I've got buttons and I have all of my Walt Disney Mickey Mouse credit cards. I'm wondering in my old age if anyone would pay for a credit card with Mickey Mouse on it issued to me. I wonder if anyone would pay anything for that?

  Mike Royer

  Glasses, Age, Giants

  "Interview: Mike Royer Talks Classic Cartoons, Jack Kirby and Much More". Interview with Bryan Stroud, comicsbulletin.com. January 30, 2015.

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