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Elderly
«To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.»
«Why is it that, as we grow older, we are so reluctant to change? It is not so much that new ideas are painful, for they are not. It is that old ideas are seldom entirely false, but have truth, great truth in them. The justification for conservatism is the desire to preserve the truths and standards of the past; its dangers, of which we are seldom aware, is that in preserving those values, we may miss the infinitely greater riches that lie in the future.»
Author: Dale E. Turner
| About:
Change,
Conservative,
Danger,
Elderly,
Future
| Keywords:
conservatism, justification, painful, reluctant
«When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity - but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.»
«When you get real old, honey, you realizre there are certain things that just don't matter anymore. You lay it all on the table. There's a saying: Only little children and old folks tell the truth.»
«When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.»
Author: Arthur C. Clarke
(Writer)
| About:
Elderly,
Opinions,
Scientists
| Keywords:
distinguished, elderly, scientist
«Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old»
«What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories»
Author: William Somerset Maugham
(Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
| About:
Elderly
| Keywords:
burden, faculties, failing
«To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual whose day will soon be over, but part of the stream of life flowing on from the first germ to the remote and unknown future.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Elderly,
Happiness
| Keywords:
especially, flowing, future day, germ, germs, isolate, isolated, isolates, isolating, remote, remotest, stream, unknown, youth