Old Age Quotes - Page 34

• Wine is a living liquid containing no preservatives. Its life cycle comprises youth, maturity, old age, and death. When not treated with reasonable respect it will sicken and die.

  Julia Child

  Wine, Maturity, Age

  Julia Child “Mastering the Art of French Cooking”, Рипол Классик

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• Alas, Postumus, the fleeting years slip by, nor will piety give any stay to wrinkles and pressing old age and untamable death.

  Horace

  Latin, Wrinkles, Years

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• I keep thinking how young can you die from old age

  Drake

  Death, Humble, Thinking

  Song: Light Up

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• Seek to learn constantly while you live; do not wait in the faith that old age by itself will bring wisdom.

  Solon

  Good Life, Waiting, Age

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  I want to die young at a ripe old age.

  Ashley Montagu

  Inspirational, Life, Age

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• The heads of strong old age are beautiful beyond all grace of youth.

  Robinson Jeffers

  Beautiful, Strong, Grace

  Robinson Jeffers, “Promise Of Peace”

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• There is this difference between the grief of youth and that of old age; youth's burden is lightened by as much of it as another shares; old age may give and give, but the sorrow remains the same.

  O. Henry

  Grief, Grieving, Differences

  O. Henry (2015). “The Trimmed Lamp”, p.139, Booklassic

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• Four specters haunt the Poor - Old Age, Accident, Sickness and Unemployment. We are going to exorcise them. We are going to drive hunger from the hearth. We mean to banish the workhouse from the horizon of every workman in the land.

  David Lloyd George

  Heart, Mean, Land

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• Four specters haunt the poor - old age, accident, sickness and unemployment

  David Lloyd George

  Age, Unemployment, Four

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• It is quite wrong to think of old age as a downward slope. On the contrary, one climbs higher and higher with the ad-vancing years, and that, too with sur-prising strides. Brain-work comes as easily to the old as physical exertion to the child. One is moving, it is true, towards the end of life, but that end is now a goal, and not a reef in which the vessel may be dashed.

  George Sand

  Children, Moving, Thinking

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• Virginity is now a mere preamble or waiting room to be got out of as soon as possible; it is without significance. Old age is similarly a waiting room, where you go after life's over and wait for cancer or a stroke. The years before and after the menstrual years are vestigial: the only meaningful condition left to women is that of fruitfulness.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Meaningful, Cancer, Waiting Rooms

  Ursula K. Le Guin (1997). “Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places”, p.4, Grove Press

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• I fear vastly more a futile, incompetent old age than I do any form of death.

  William Allen White

  Age, Aging, Form

  William Allen White (1937). “Forty Years on Main Street”

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• They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old. Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning we will remember them.

  Laurence Binyon

  Death, Morning, Years

  "For the Fallen" l. 13 (1914)

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• I prefer old age to the alternative.

  Maurice Chevalier

  Age, Alternatives, Aging

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• I have everything I had twenty years ago, only it's all a little bit lower.

  Gypsy Rose Lee

  Birthday, Fun, Years

  "The Making of a Muckraker". Book by Jessica Mitford, p. 113, 1979.

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

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Birthday, Adventure, Mind

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• Old age: The estuary that enlarges and spreads itself grandly as it pours into the Great Sea.

  Walt Whitman

  Sea, Age, Aging

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• It is, indeed, only in old age that intellectual men attain their sublime expression, whilst portraits of them in their youth show only the first traces of it.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Men, Expression, Intellectual

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer”, p.194, Simon and Schuster

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• If a man would register all his opinions upon love, politics, religion, learning etc., beginning from his youth, and so go to old age, what a bundle of inconsistencies and contradictions would appear at last.

  Jonathan Swift

  Love, Learning, Men

  Jonathan Swift (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jonathan Swift (Illustrated)”, p.895, Delphi Classics

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• I'm learning in my old age that the only thing you can do to keep your sanity is to stay in the moment.

  Willem Dafoe

  Crazy, Mad, Age

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• Old age is not a total misery. Experience helps.

  Euripides

  Sadness, Age, Helping

  Euripides (2013). “Euripides IV: Helen, The Phoenician Women, Orestes”, p.119, University of Chicago Press

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• Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife, This simple boon I beg of Fate - A thousand years of Middle Life.

  Carolyn Wells

  Stupid, Silly, Fate

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• If the soul has food for study and learning, nothing is more delightful than an old age of leisure.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Work, Soul, Age

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1855). “Cicero's Three books of offices, or moral duties: also his Cato Major, an essay on old age; Lælius, an essay on friendship; Paradoxes; Scipio's dream; and Letter to Quintus on the duties of a magistrate”, p.239

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• A life of peace, purity and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Age, Calm, Aging

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• An intemperate, disorderly youth will bring to old age, a feeble and worn-out body.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Age, Body, Youth

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