Senile Quotes
28 quotes by 28 authors
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Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile.
— Henry Adams
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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…
— C.S. Lewis
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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,…
— Alfred North Whitehead
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There is not a man who does not get senile by the time he reaches sixty. And when one thinks that he will not be…
— Yamamoto Tsunetomo
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He types his labored column - weary drudge! Senile fudge and solemn: spare, editor, to condemn these dry leaves of his autumn.
— Robertson Davies
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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…
— Joseph Beuys
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He had senile dementia and liked to go outside naked, but he could still do two things perfectly: win at checkers and write out prescriptions.
— Barbara Kingsolver
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The plague of government is senile delinquency.
— Mignon McLaughlin
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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…
— Arthur C. Clarke
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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.…
— Camilla Lackberg
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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…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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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…
— Jonathan Brandis
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Soon I'll be old and I've done precious little in this world for lack of time. I am always afraid I'll become senile before I've…
— Paul Gauguin
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When you become senile, you won't know it.
— Bill Cosby
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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…
— Elon Musk
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Your wrinkles either show that you're nasty, cranky, and senile, or that you're always smiling.
— Carlos Santana
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All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
— Tennessee Williams
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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…
— Clint Eastwood
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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…
— John Kennedy Toole
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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…
— John Flanagan
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