Old Age Quotes - Page 35

• I know not any season of life that is past more agreeably than virtuous old age.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Past, Age, Aging

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• Rashness attends youth, as prudence does old age.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Age, Doe, Youth

  Marcus Tullius Cicero, James LOGAN (Chief Justice of the Province of Pennsylvania.) (1750). “Cato Major; Or, a Treatise on Old Age ... With Explanatory Notes from the Roman History. By Mr. Loggan [sic]. To which is Prefixed, the Life of Marcus Tullius Cicero”, p.42

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• Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Life, Time, Age

  Marcus Tullius Cicero, William Melmoth (1820). “Essays on old age and friendship”, p.70

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• The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Time, Age, Doe

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• Never use the passing years as an excuse for old age.

  Robert Breault

  Years, Age, Use

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• When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.

  Jonathan Swift

  Sacrifice, Men, Leaving

  Jonathan Swift, Thomas Sheridan (1813). “The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift...”, p.365

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• Who does not wish to be beautiful, and clever, and rich, and to have back, in old age, the time spent trying to be any of them.

  Robert Breault

  Beautiful, Clever, Wish

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• The mere man of pleasure is miserable in old age, and the mere drudge in business is but little better, whereas, natural philosophy, mathematical and mechanical science, are a continual source of tranquil pleasure, and in spite of the gloomy dogmas of priests and of superstition, the study of these things is the true theology; it teaches man to know and admire the Creator, for the principles of science are in the creation, and are unchangeable and of divine origin.

  Thomas Paine

  Philosophy, Knowledge, Science

  Thomas Paine (2003). “The Age of Reason”, p.118, Book Tree

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• I think if a physician wrote on a death certificate that old age was the cause of death, he'd be thrown out of the union. There is always some final event, some failure of an organ, some last attack of pneumonia, that finishes off a life. No one dies of old age.

  George Wald

  Life, Science, Thinking

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• Nothing is more despicable than the old age of a passionate man. When the vigour of youth fails him, and his amusements pall with frequent repetition, his occasional rage sinks by decay of strength into peevishness; that peevishness, for want of novelty and variety, becomes habitual; the world falls off from around him, and he is left, as Homer expresses it, to devour his own heart in solitude and contempt.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Fall, Heart, Men

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• I am afraid, ... that health begins, after seventy, and often long before, to have a meaning different from that which it had at thirty. But it is culpable to murmur at the established order of the creation, as it is vain to oppose it. He that lives, must grow old; and he that would rather grow old than die, has God to thank for the infirmities of old age.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Order, Long, Age

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• Every funeral may justly be considered as a summons to prepare for that state into which it shows us that we must some time enter; and the summons is more loud and piercing as the event of which it warns us is at less distance. To neglect at any time preparation for death is to sleep on our post at a siege; but to omit it in old age is to sleep at an attack.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Distance, Sleep, Funeral

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• It is not uncommon for those who at their first entrance into the world were distinguished for attainments or abilities, to disappoint the hopes which they had raised, and to end in neglect and obscurity that life which they began in honour. To the long catalogue of the inconveniences of old age, which moral and satirical writers have so copiously displayed, may be often added the loss of fame.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Loss, Long, Age

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• Those who love not their fellow-beings live unfruitful lives, and prepare for their old age a miserable grave.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Funny, Kindness, Age

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1871). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Complete in One Volume”, p.51

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• The pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion.

  Democritus

  Pride, Age, Youth

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• 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

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• In old age our bodies are worn-out instruments, on which the soul tries in vain to play the melodies of youth. But because the instrument has lost its strings, or is out of tune, it does not follow that the musician has lost his skill.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Play, Skills, Soul

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1888). “Longfellow's Days: The Longfellow Prose Birthday Book : Extracts from the Journals and Letters of H. W. Longfellow”

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• We spend our lives on the run: we get up by the clock, eat and sleep by the clock, get up again, go to work - and then we retire. And what do they give us? A bloody clock.

  Dave Allen

  Running, Sleep, Giving

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• Some reckon their age by years, Some measure their life by art; But some tell their days by the flow of their tears And their lives by the moans of their hearts.

  Abram Joseph Ryan

  Life, Art, Years

  Abram Joseph Ryan (1973). “Selected poems of Father Ryan”

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• When I was a kid I respected authority, then as a teenager I gave none; in middle age I expected it; now in old age I live by the word.

  Horace Dyer

  Teenager, Kids, Power

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• There can be no freedom of the individual, no democracy, without the capital system, the profit system, the private enterprise system. These are, in the end, inseparable. Those who would destroy freedom have only first to destroy the hope of gain, the profit of enterprise and risk-taking, the hope of accumulating capital, the hope to save something for one's old age and for one's children. For a community of men without property, and without the hope of getting it by honest effort, is a community of slaves of a despotic State.

  Russell Cornell Leffingwell

  Children, Honesty, Freedom

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• When does the loneliness of old age begin?

  Janusz Korczak

  Loneliness, Age, Doe

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• I love running. It's as simple as that ... it has given me endless rewards: physical, emotional, and professional. The benefits of running are lifelong. I ran as a child, and I intend to run into my old age.

  Grete Waitz

  Inspirational, Running, Children

  Grete Waitz, Gloria Averbuch (2000). “On The Run: Exercise and Fitness for Busy People”, Rodale Books

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• Old age is but a second childhood.

  Aristophanes

  Children, Childhood, Age

  Clouds (1417) (transl. Thomas Mitchell)

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• We do ourselves and others a disservice when we make old age something to be feared...The longer we live, the more life we possess.

  Harold S. Kushner

  Inspirational Life, Age, Disservice

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