Old Age Quotes - Page 31

• Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Birthday, Errors, Long

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• A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice; a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Birthday, Justice, Age

  Baltasar Gracian, Baltasar Gracián y Morales (2004). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.8, Shambhala Publications

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• I have the problems of, I must confess, old age.

  Billy Graham

  Birthday, Age, Aging

  "I hope they'll say that he was faithful". Interview with Katie Couric, www.today.com. June 23, 2005.

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• In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived.

  Knut Hamsun

  Past, Age, Letters

  "Wanderers". Book by Knut Hamsun, 1909.

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• The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.

  Thomas Hardy

  Time, Jobs, Men

  Thomas Hardy (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Thomas Hardy (Illustrated)”, p.8199, Delphi Classics

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• Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Birthday, Dream, Time

  Soren Kierkegaard (1946). “Either/or”

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• I don't have a dime left. I am dependent on my friends for food and a small old-age pension.

  Bela Lugosi

  Age, Dimes, Dependent

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• Old age and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance.

  David Mamet

  Age, Youth, Beats

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• What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Time, Memories, Age

  Points of View Ch. 1

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• It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary... to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.

  Margaret Mead

  Birthday, Regret, Learning

  "Teacher's Treasury of Stories for Every Occasion". Book by Millard Dale Baughman, 1958.

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• Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.

  Herman Melville

  Time, Insomnia, Men

  1851 Moby Dick, ch.29.

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• Many believe - and I believe - that I have been designated for this work by God. In spite of my old age, I do not want to give it up; I work out of love for God and I put all my hope in Him.

  Michelangelo

  Birthday, Hope, Believe

  Barbara A. Somervill, Michelangelo Buonarroti (2005). “Michelangelo: Sculptor and Painter”, p.80, Capstone

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• As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.

  Jean Paul

  Birthday, Time, Winter

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• A man's character never changes radically from youth to old age. What happens is that circumstances bring out characteristics which have not been obvious to the superficial observer.

  Hesketh Pearson

  Character, Men, Age

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• As we grow older, our bodies get shorter and our anecdotes longer.

  Robert Quillen

  Funny, Age, Anecdotes

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• I think my fans will follow me into our combined old age. Real musicians and real fans stay together for a long, long time.

  Bonnie Raitt

  Music, Real, Thinking

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• It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Birthday, Men, Age

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• Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Birthday, Death, Time

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• The best Armour of Old Age is a well spent life preceding it; a Life employed in the Pursuit of useful Knowledge, in honourable Actions and the Practice of Virtue; in which he who labours to improve himself from his Youth, will in Age reap the happiest Fruits of them; not only because these never leave a Man, not even in the extremest Old Age; but because a Conscience bearing Witness that our Life was well-spent, together with the Remembrance of past good Actions, yields an unspeakable Comfort to the Soul

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Past, Men, Yield

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• When considering marriage one should ask oneself this question; 'will I be able to talk with this person into old age?' Everything else is transitory, the most time is spent in conversation.

  Bertrand Russell

  Age, Able, Should

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• Kevin stopped where he was and stood there simply gazing at her. Molly sat cross-legged in the meadow with the sun shining on her bare shoulders and a pair of yellow butterflies fluttering like hair bows around her head. She was all the dreams he'd lost at dawn-dreams of everything he hadn't understood he needed until now. She was his playmate, his confidante, the lover who made his blood rush. She was the mother of his children and the companion of his old age. She was the joy of his heart.

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Mother, Dream, Children

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• Good-bye -- if you hear of my being stood up against a stone wall and shot to rags please know that I think that a pretty good way to depart this life. It beats old age, disease or falling down the cellar stairs.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Wall, Fall, Thinking

  Ambrose Bierce, S. T. Joshi, Tryambak Sunand Joshi, David E. Schultz (2003). “A Much Misunderstood Man: Selected Letters of Ambrose Bierce”, p.243, Ohio State University Press

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• For West is where we all plan to go some day. It is where you go when the land gives out and the old-field pines encroach. It is where you go when you get the letter saying: Flee, all is discovered. It is where you go when you look down at the blade in your hand and the blood on it. It is where you go when you are told that you are a bubble on the tide of empire. It is where you go when you hear that thar's gold in them-thar hills. It is where you go to grow up with the country. It is where you go to spend your old age. Or it is just where you go.

  Robert Penn Warren

  Country, Growing Up, Blood

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• You cant reach old age by another man's road, my habits protect my life but they would assassinate you

  Mark Twain

  Men, Age, Habit

  Mark Twain, Milton Meltzer (2002). “Mark Twain Himself: A Pictorial Biography”, p.266, University of Missouri Press

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• It was Carrot who'd suggested to the Patrician that hardened criminals should be given the chance to 'serve the community' by redecorating the homes of the elderly, lending a new terror to old age and, given Ankh-Morpork's crime rate, leading to at least one old lady having her front room wallpapered so many times in six months that now she could only get in sideways.

  Terry Pratchett

  Home, Elderly, Community

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Feet Of Clay: (Discworld Novel 19)”, p.60, Random House

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