Senile Quotes

28 quotes by 28 authors

Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile. — Henry Adams
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
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
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
He types his labored column - weary drudge! Senile fudge and solemn: spare, editor, to condemn these dry leaves of his autumn. — Robertson Davies
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
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
The plague of government is senile delinquency. — Mignon McLaughlin
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
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
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
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
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
When you become senile, you won't know it. — Bill Cosby
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
Your wrinkles either show that you're nasty, cranky, and senile, or that you're always smiling. — Carlos Santana
All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent. — Tennessee Williams
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
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
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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