Quotes About Old

person who is learning has less time to think about growing old. I also enjoy surprising people

He remembered Bertolt Brecht: I would also like to be wise. In the old books it says what wisdom is: To shun the strife of the world and to live out Your brief time without fear All this I cannot do.

This is what Achilles will feel like when he is old. And then I remembered: he will never be old.

A pleasure rose in me so old and sharp it felt like pain.

The problem of self-identity is not just a problem for the young. It is a problem all the time. Perhaps the problem. It should haunt old age, and when it no longer does it should tell you that you are dead.

In little pockets of conversation, old men were telling stories of ancient floods. Women were talking of about how much rain there'd been in other towns -- Paragould, Lepanto, and Manila.

There are times, many times, when I despise judges, especially blind ones and old ones

But old playboys don't exactly fade away. As a general rule, they go down swinging.

The royal baptism took place a week later. Prince James was almost six months old

The two old secretaries conversed in the manner of hostile but toothless male dogs.

We drink after work, is that correct?" "That's right." "Entirely the wrong order," the old man said, wobbling slightly as he rose. "Let's get to it, then.

When through the old oak forest I am gone, Let me not wander in a barren dream.

I have sufficiently urged that all suggestions as to financial innovation be regarded with extreme skepticism. Such seeming innovation is merely some variant on an old design, new only in the brief and defective memory of the financial world.

Paracelsus declared he would investigate nature "not by following that which those of old taught, but by our own observation of nature, confirmed by . . . experiment and by reasoning thereon.

Till old experience do attain To something like prophetic strain.

Give me the old familiar world, post-office and all, with this ever new self, with this infinite expectation and faith, which does not know when it is beaten.

Doubt is an old disease. Faith is an old medicine. Compassion is an old doctor. Concern is an old nurse.

i thought, this is what achilles will feel like when he's old. and then i remembered: he will never be old

I'll search in mythology and archeology and in every -ology to my old name. one of the goddesses of Canaan will side with me, then swear with a flash of lightning. This is my orphan son

We must read and reread; the relationship with a text is alive. A book that does not get old is a book from which the reader can always expect something new, in which he can always discover something, a book that thus demonstrates to him that it is forever alive, that their fates are joined and the two of them are united "for life and till death.

I had gone with Henri Pirenne to Stockholm; we had scarcely arrived, when he said to me: 'What shall we go to see first? It seems that there is a new city hall here. Let's start there.' Then, as if to ward of my surprise, he added: 'If I were an antiquarian, I would have eyes only for old stuff, but I am a historian. Therefore, I love life.

The modern word derives from the Old English cyning, meaning something like 'son of the kin'.

Our love of life is only an old liaison of which we do not know how to rid ourselves. Its strength lies in its permanence. But death which severs it will cure us of the desire for immortality.

Then came the deglutition of saliva, and the old lady instinctively wiped the stubble of her toothbrush moustache with her handkerchief.