Old Age Quotes - Page 37

• I've gotten crankier in my old age.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Birthday, Age, 60th Birthday

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• Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Powerful, Age, Literature

  Geoffrey Chaucer (1959). “The Canterbury Tales”

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• Old age, after all, is merely the punishment for having lived.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Punishment, Age

  "Drawn and Quartered". Book by Emil Cioran, 1983.

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• Exercise and temperance can preserve something of our early strength even in old age.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Exercise, Age, Temperance

  On Old Age X.34

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• India's sex ratio is 1000 boys for 940 girls. Who creates this disparity? It isn't God. Don't fill your coffers by sacrificing the mother's womb. People feel that sons will take care of them when they are old. But I have seen aged parents in old-age homes. I have seen families where one daughter serves parents more than five sons.

  Narendra Modi

  Girl, Mother, Daughter

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• I think you are out of your mind if you keep taking jobs that you don't like because you think it will look good on your resume. Isn't that a little like saving up sex for your old age?

  Warren Buffett

  Life, Jobs, Sex

  Buffett Lecture at the University of Florida School of Business, tilsonfunds.com. October 15, 1998.

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• For those struggling in midstream, in great fear of the flood, of growing old and of dying for all those I say, an island exists where there is no place for impediments, no place for clinging: the island of no going beyond. I call it nirvana, the complete destruction of old age and dying.

  Gautama Buddha

  Spiritual, Struggle, Islands

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• In particular I may mention Sophocles the poet, who was once asked in my presence, How do you feel about love, Sophocles? are you still capable of it? to which he replied, Hush! if you please: to my great delight I have escaped from it, and feel as if I had escaped from a frantic and savage master. I thought then, as I do now, that he spoke wisely. For unquestionably old age brings us profound repose and freedom from this and other passions.

  Plato

  Love, Plato, Passion

  Plato (1866). “The Republic of Plato, translated into English, with an introduction, analysis, and notes. By J. Ll. Davies and D. J. Vaughan”, p.3

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• Autumn is a hint from God to Old Age.

  Austin O'Malley

  Autumn, Age, Hints

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• Old age and the passage of time teach all things.

  Sophocles

  Birthday, Time, Age

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• He has existed only, not lived, who lacks wisdom in old age.

  Publilius Syrus

  Age, Youth

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• In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

  Socrates

  Life, Childhood, Age

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• Make wisdom your provision for the journey from youth to old age, for it is a more certain support than all other possessions.

  Bias of Priene

  Journey, Support, Age

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• Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age.

  Hesiod

  Marriage, Wedding, Sisterhood

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• Religion often gets credit for curing rascals when old age is the real medicine.

  Austin O'Malley

  Real, Medicine, Age

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• No lie ever reaches old age.

  Sophocles

  Birthday, Lying, Age

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• Not even old age knows how to love death.

  Sophocles

  Birthday, Age, How To Love

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• The young people of today think of nothing but themselves. They have no reverence for parents or old age. They are impatient of all restraint. They talk as if they alone knew everything and what passes for wisdom with us is foolishness with them. As for girls, they are forward, immodest and unwomanly in speech, behaviour and dress.

  Socrates

  Girl, Thinking, People

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• Observation, not old age, brings wisdom.

  Publilius Syrus

  Wisdom, Age, Observation

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• I should never conclude were I to speak to you of all the misfortunes which have their origin in the faulty carriage of the body. All these defects, mortifying for those who have contracted them, cannot be remedied except in their early stages. A habit born in childhood is strengthened in youth, becomes deeply rooted in adulthood and is incurable in old age.

  Jean-Georges Noverre

  Childhood, Ballet, Age

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• If we are strong, and have faith in life and its richness of surprises, and hold the rudder steadily in our hands. I am sure we will sail into quiet and pleasant waters for our old age.

  Freya Stark

  Inspirational, Funny, Faith

  Freya Stark (1974). “The Open Door, 1930-35”

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• The air is an extremely dangerous, jealous and exacting mistress. Once under the spell most lovers are faithful to the end, which is not always old age. Even those masters and princes of aerial fighting, the survivors of fifty mortal duels in the high air who have come scatheless through the War and all its perils, have returned again and again to their love and perished too often in some ordinary commonplace flight undertaken for pure amusement.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Jealous, Fighting

  Sir Winston Churchill, Andrew Scotland (1965). “Churchill on men and events: a selection from "Thoughts and adventures" and "Great contemporaries"”

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• Old age is the verdict of life.

  Amelia Barr

  Age, Aging, Verdict

  Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr (2017). “All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography The Red Leaves of a Human Heart”, p.493, Library of Alexandria

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• In my old age, I'll be in L.A.

  David Hockney

  Age

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• One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Giving, Age, Pleasure

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