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  • 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. Perhaps the adjective 'elderly' requires definition. In physics, mathematics, and astronautics it means over thirty; in the other disciplines, senile decay is sometimes postponed to the forties. There are, of course, glorious exceptions; but as every researcher just out of college knows, scientists of over fifty are good for nothing but board meetings, and should at all costs be kept out of the laboratory!

    Mean   College   Elderly  
    Profiles of the Future ch. 2 (1962).
  • But a haiku by Buson came into his mind: 'I try to forget this senile love; a chilly autumn shower.' The gloom only grew denser.

    Autumn   Mind   Trying  
    Yasunari Kawabata (2013). “The Sound of the Mountain”, p.210, Vintage
  • Things are much more complicated. Feminism versus pornography, for example. There are a lot of feminists who think it is bad, but others think it's good. I have become, you might call it mature - I would call it senile - and I can see both sides. But you can't write a satirical song with 'but on the other hand' in it, or 'however'. It's got to be one-sided.

    Song   Writing   Thinking  
    Sydney Morning Herald interview, www.smh.com.au. March 1, 2003.
  • He types his labored column - weary drudge! Senile fudge and solemn: spare, editor, to condemn these dry leaves of his autumn.

    Autumn   Editors   Fudge  
  • Develop your eccentricities early, and no one will think you're going senile later in life

  • What the object of senile avarice may be I cannot conceive. For can there be anything more absurd than to seek more journey money, the less there remains of the journey?

    Journey   May   Absurd  
    Marcus Tullius Cicero (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Cicero (Illustrated)”, p.3016, Delphi Classics
  • Looks like he's lost a guinea and found a farthing," Horace said, then added, unnecessarily, "Will, I mean." Halt turned in his saddle to regard the younger man and raised an eyebrow. "I may be almost senile in your eyes, Horace, but there's no need to explain the blindly obvious to me. I'd hardly have thought you were referring to Tug.

    Mean   Eye   Men  
    John Flanagan (2011). “Halt's Peril (Ranger's Apprentice Book 9)”, p.25, Random House
  • Maybe I`m getting to the age when I`m starting to be senile or nostalgic or both, but people are so angry now. You used to be able to disagree with people and still be friends. Now you hear these talk shows, and everyone who believes differently from you is a moron and an idiot - both on the Right and the Left.

    Believe   People   Age  
  • All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.

    God   Atheism   Mythology  
    Tennessee Williams (2009). “The Night of the Iguana”, p.58, New Directions Publishing
  • I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don't retire before I go senile, then I'll do more damage than good at that point.

    "Master Of Creative Disruption". Interview with Logan Ward, www.popularmechanics.co.za. December 1, 2012.
  • Anyone who claimed that old age had brought them patience was either lying or senile.

    Robert Jordan, Brandon Sanderson (2009). “The Gathering Storm: Book Twelve of the Wheel of Time”, p.109, Macmillan
  • The enemy aggressor is always pursuing a course of larceny, murder, rapine, and barbarism. We are always moving forward with high mission, a destiny imposed by the deity to regenerate our victims while incidentally capturing their markets, to civilize savage and senile and paranoidal peoples while blundering accidentally into their oil wells or metal mines.

    Peace   Moving   Destiny  
    John T. Flynn (1944). “As We Go Marching”
  • Don't ever get old. With each year that passes, the old Viking idea of jumping off a cliff to one's death looks better and better. The only thing to hope for is that you get so senile that you think you're twenty years old again. That would be fun to relive.

    Fun   Thinking   Jumping  
    Camilla Lackberg (2012). “Camilla Lackberg Crime Thrillers 1-3: The Ice Princess, The Preacher, The Stonecutter”, p.117, HarperCollins UK
  • We want, in fact, not so much a father in heaven as a grandfather in heaven: a senile benevolence who, as they say, "liked to see young people enjoying themselves" and whose plan for the universe was simply that it might be truly said at the end of each day, "a good time was had by all."

    C. S. Lewis (2009). “A Year with C. S. Lewis: Daily Readings from His Classic Works”, p.19, Harper Collins
  • The vitality of thought is in adventure. Idea's won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervour, live for it, and, if need be, die for it. Their inheritors receive the idea, perhaps now strong and successful, but without inheriting the fervour; so the idea settles down to a comfortable middle age, turns senile, and dies.

    Alfred North Whitehead, Lucien Price (2001). “Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead”, p.98, David R. Godine Publisher
  • Only art is capable of dismantling the repressive effects of a senile social system that continues to totter along the deathline: to dismantle in order to build A SOCIAL ORGANISM AS A WORK OF ART.

    Art   Order   Social  
    Caroline Tisdall, Joseph Beuys (1979). “Joseph Beuys”
  • Autumn is the very soul of metamorphosis, a time when the world is poised at the door of winter - which is the door of death - but has not yet fallen. It is a world of contradictions: a time of harvest and plenty but also of cold and hardship. Here we dwell in the midst of life, but we know most keenly that all things must pass away and shrivel. Autumn turns the world from one thing into another. The year is seasoned and wise but not yet decrepit or senile.

    Wise   Autumn   Winter  
    Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making”, p.141, Macmillan
  • At twenty, a man feels awfully aged and blasé; at thirty, almost senile; at forty, "not so old"; and at fifty, positively skittish.

    Men   Twenties   Fifty  
  • Anti-theses.- The most senile thing ever thought about man is contained in the celebrated saying 'the ego is always hateful'; the most childish is the even more celebrated 'love thy neighbor as thyself'. - In the former, knowledge of human nature has ceased, in the latter it has not yet even begun.

    Men   Ego   Hateful  
    Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.296, Cambridge University Press
  • I'm not senile," I snapped. "If I burn the house down it will be on purpose.

    House   Purpose   Senile  
    Margaret Atwood (2007). “The Blind Assassin: A Novel”, p.310, Anchor
  • Your wrinkles either show that you're nasty, cranky, and senile, or that you're always smiling.

    Funny   Smile   Wrinkles  
  • When I was young I was called a rugged individualist. When I was in my fifties I was considered eccentric. Here I am doing and saying the same things I did then and I'm labeled senile.

    Funny   Here I Am   Age  
    "Just You and Me Kid", 1979.
  • As a young man just beginning to publish some short fiction in the t&a magazines, I was fairly optimistic about my chances of getting published; I knew that I had some game, as the basketball players say these days, and I also felt that time was on my side; sooner or later the best-selling writers of the sixties and seventies would either die or go senile, making room for newcomers like me.

  • It was certainly not this mummified and outrageously painted old woman he was seeing before him, but the entire "female species," as it was his custom to call women. The individual disappeared, the features were obliterated, whether young or senile, beautiful or ugly - those were mere unimportant variations. Behind each woman rises the austere, sacred and mysterious face of Aphrodite.

  • My grandfather said, "When you become senile, you won't know it."

    "Bill Cosby: 49". Documentary, Comedy, www.imdb.com. 1987.
  • I attended a very small junior high and specially in the end that became a disaster. The principal was pretty senile and a drunk, so the children more or less runned the school.

    Children   School   Drunk  
  • You can keep your memory intact, preserve your brain's health, and minimize the risk of aging and senile dementia, things that are greatly feared as people grow older.

    Memories   People   Risk  
  • Psycho? The woman's senile. We had to stop at about thirty gas stations on the way over here. Finally I got tired of getting out of the car and showing her which was the Men's and which was the Women's, so I let her pick them herself. I worked out a system. The law of averages. I laid money on her and she came out about fifty-fifty.

    Tired   Men   Average  
    John Kennedy Toole (2004). “A Confederacy of Dunces”, p.284, LSU Press
  • The plague of government is senile delinquency.

    "The Complete Neurotic's Notebook". Book by Mignon McLaughlin, 1981.
  • She thinks she knows everything that goes on inside me, and she doesn’t know a thing. What did she want from me – to tell the truth all the time? To run around saying it did matter to me that I live in a world where you can grow old and be alone and have to get down on your hands and knees and beg for friends? A place where people just sort of forget about you because you get a little old and your mind’s a bit senile or silly? Did she think that didn’t bother me underneath?

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