Quotes about Olderness, page 13

I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

Quote by Thomas Stearns Eliot about olderness

There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.

Quote by Thomas Stearns Eliot about olderness

If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate: The "Ode on a Grecian Urn" is worth any number of old ladies.

Quote by William Feather about olderness

Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.

Quote by Oprah Winfrey about olderness

I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.

Quote by Oprah Winfrey about olderness

You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.

Quote by Tennessee Williams about olderness

I wanted to be a forest ranger or a coal man. At a very early age, I knew I didn't want to do what my dad did, which was work in an office.

Quote by Harrison Ford about olderness

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

Quote by Robert Frost about olderness

Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer...

Quote by William Golding about olderness

It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Quote by Charles Haddon Spurgeon about olderness

All evil comes from the old. They grow fat on ideas and young men die of them.

Quote by Jean Anouilh about olderness

The sea, the great unifier, is man's only hope. Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat.

Quote by Jacques-Yves Cousteau about olderness

Old age is the supreme evil, for it deprives man of all pleasures while allowing his appetites to remain, and it brings with it every possible sorrow. Yet men fear death and desire old age.

Quote by Giacomo Leopardi about olderness

At my age, you sort of fart your way into a role.

Quote by Donald McNichol Sutherland about olderness

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

Quote by Knut Hamsun about olderness

Prejudices are not easily got rid of as an old coat which is no longer thought of.

Quote by Nicolas Malebranche about olderness

They say eyes clear with age.

Quote by Philip Larkin about olderness

I hate those men who would send into war youth to fight and die for them; the pride and cowardice of those old men, making their wars that boys must die.

Quote by Mary Roberts Rinehart about olderness

A woman has the age she deserves.

Quote by Coco Chanel about olderness

You can't teach an old dogma new tricks.

Quote by Dorothy Parker about olderness