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  • Term limits would cure both senility and seniority- both terrible legislative diseases.

  • What really scares me is Alzheimer's or premature senility, losing that ability to read and enjoy and to write. And you do it, and some days maybe aren't so good, and then some days, you really catch a wave, and it's as good as it ever was.

    "Stephen King wants to reach out and grab you — with his writing". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. October 6, 2016.
  • I went from adolescence to senility, trying to bypass maturity.

    "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Superficial observers have long criticized the United States for making a fetish of youth. This is unfair. Uniquely among modern organs of public and private administration, its national legislature rewards senility.

    "The United States". The New York magazine article on November 15, 1971, reprinted in "A View from the Stands", 1986.
  • Retirement: statutory senility.

  • You know, I have found a new way to get high and stay spaced out for hours on end, and the government can't stop me... It's called senility.

  • [In old age] there is a childlike innocence, often, that has nothing to do with the childishness of senility. The moments become precious . . .

    Age   Innocence   Moments  
    May Sarton, Earl G. Ingersoll (1991). “Conversations with May Sarton”, p.124, Univ. Press of Mississippi
  • Time and happenings and the grace of God are the best solvers of puzzles. One must leave much to these, if he is not to worry himself into premature senility.

    Time   Worry   Grace  
  • You believe in the God who plays dice, and I in complete law and order in a world that objectively exists, and which I, in a wildly speculative way, am trying to capture. ... Even the great initial success of the quantum theory does not make me believe in the fundamental dice-game, although I am well aware that our younger colleagues interpret this as a consequence of senility. No doubt the day will come when we will see whose instinctive attitude was the correct one.

    God   Attitude   Believe  
  • The only difference between a rut and a grave are the dimensions.

    Change   Stress   Humor  
  • I dont fear death so much as I fear its prologues: loneliness, decrepitude, pain, debilitation, depression, senility. After a few years of those, I imagine death presents like a holiday at the beach.

    Beach   Pain   Loneliness  
  • People live their lives, constantly surrounded by anxiety. if they live long before dying, they end up in senility, worn out by concerns: a terrible fate! The body is treated in a very harsh fashion. Courageous men are seen by everyone under Heaven as worthy, but this doesn't preserve them from death. I am not sure I know whether this is sensible or not.

    Fashion   Fate   Men  
  • A curious thing about written literature: It is about four thousand years old, but we have no way of knowing whether four thousand years constitutes senility or the maiden blush of youth.

    Writing   Years   Knowing  
  • I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142. This is no time to be flitting about the earth. I must cease from the activities proper to youth and begin to take on the dignities and gravities and inertia proper to that season of honorable senility which is on its way.

    Age   Earth   Way  
    Mark Twain (2015). “Complete Letters of Mark Twain”, p.689, Litres
  • It is a pledge that senility has not the last say in everything.

    Lasts   Senility   Pledge  
  • There is nothing worse than an idle hour, with no occupation offering. People who have many such hours are simply animals waiting docilely for death. We all come to that state soon or late. It is the curse of senility.

    Death   Animal   Offering  
    H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.86, Knopf
  • And so I ask myself: 'Where are your dreams?' And I shake my head and mutter: 'How the years go by!' And I ask myself again: 'What have you done with those years? Where have you buried your best moments? Have you really lived? Look,' I say to myself, 'how cold it is becoming all over the world!' And more years will pass and behind them will creep grim isolation. Tottering senility will come hobbling, leaning on a crutch, and behind these will come unrelieved boredom and despair. The world of fancies will fade, dreams will wilt and die and fall like autumn leaves from the trees. . . .

    Dream   Fall   Autumn  
  • When the going gets tough, the tough take a nap.

    "Idle thoughts" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. July 28, 2006.
  • Novelists don't age as quickly as philosophers, who often face professional senility in their late twenties.

    Martin Amis (2014). “The War Against Cliche: Essays and Reviews 1971-2000”, p.315, Vintage
  • 'Don't worry about senility', my grandfather used to say.

    Worry   Grandfather   Age  
    Bill Cosby (1987). “Time Flies”
  • When I was very young and the urge to be someplace else was on me, I was assured by mature people that maturity would cure this itch. When years described me as mature, the remedy prescribed was middle age. In middle age I was assured that greater age would calm my fever and now that I am fifty-eight perhaps senility will do the job. Nothing has worked. I fear the disease is incurable.

    Travel   Jobs   Maturity  
    John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.8, Penguin
  • When the going gets tough, the tough get a librarian.

    Reading   Book   Naps  
  • For the general practitioner a well-used library is one of the few correctives of the premature senility which is so apt to take him.

    Library   Used   Wells  
    Sir William Osler (2001). “Osler's "a Way of Life" and Other Addresses, with Commentary and Annotations”, p.250, Duke University Press
  • When the going gets tough, the tough eat ribs.

  • When the going gets tough, the tough go drinking.

    FaceBook post by Bret Easton Ellis from Jan 01, 2014
  • When the going gets tough, the tough make cookies.

  • In the modern technoindustrial culture, it is possible to proceed from infancy into senility without ever knowing manhood.

    Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.25, RosettaBooks
  • You know, you look at the chaos in the conservative camp right now, it's only too tempting to blame it all on pot. But in fact, the Reagan revolution owes a lot to Reefer. For one thing, it's made the symptoms of senility socially acceptable.

  • Education, the great mumbo jumbo and fraud of the age purports to equip us to live and is prescribed as a universal remedy for everything from juvenile delinquency to premature senility.

    Education   School   Age  
    Malcolm Muggeridge (1979). “Things past”
  • God how I hate new countries: They are older than the old, more sophisticated, much more conceited, only young in a certain puerile vanity more like senility than anything.

    D. H. Lawrence, Warren Roberts, James T. Boulton, Elizabeth Mansfield (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.250, Cambridge University Press
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