Aging Quote by Henry Adams Download Open image “Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile.” — Henry Adams ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Aging Elders Men Passion Young Young men
While old men feel sensibly enough their own advance in years, they do not sufficiently recollect it in those whom they have seenyoung. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I would not say that old men grow wise, for men never grow wise; and many old men retain a very attractive childishness and… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Old men tend to forget what thought was like in their youth; they forget the quickness of the mental jump, the daring of the… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
The world is burdened with young fogies. Old men with ossified minds are easily dealt with. But men who look young, act young and… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools. — George Chapman Copy Share Image
“The young man pities his elders, fearing the day he, too, will join their ranks. The elderly man pities the younger generation, well-knowing the… — Lynda I Fisher Copy Share Image
The idea of a group of elders is that, in past civilizations, they have linked worlds; the other world was also present in this… — Jacques Yves Cousteau Copy Share Image
Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold and have escaped, not from one master,… — Plato Copy Share Image
I am fairly tired--bored beyond endurance--by the world we live in, and its ideals, and am ready to say so, not violently, but kindly,… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
“One had heard and read a great deal about death, and even seen a little of it, and knew by heart the thousand commonplaces… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
The chief wonder of education is that it does not ruin everybody concerned in it, teachers and taught. — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
The proof that a philosopher does not know what he is talking about is apt to sadden his followers before it reacts on himself. — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
No man should be in politics unless he would honestly rather not be there. — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
In the history of the United States, there is no continuity at all. You can cut through it anywhere and nothing on this side… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
“Washington was no politician as we understand the word," replied Ratcliffe abruptly. "He stood outside of politics. The thing couldn't be done today. The… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
If I grapple with sin in my own strength, the devil knows he may go to sleep. — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
All State education is a sort of dynamo machine for polarizing the popular mind; for turning and holding its lines of force in the… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
In the past 40 years, the United States lost more than a million farmers and ranchers. Many of our farmers are aging. Today, only… — Tom Vilsack Copy Share Image
“Prayer of an Anonymous Abbess: Lord, thou knowest better than myself that I am growing older and will soon be old. Keep me from… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The more I produce, the less I am certain. On the road along which the artist walks, night falls ever more densely. Finally, he… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
So often do you see collegians enter life with high resolve and lofty purpose and then watch them shrink and shrink to sordid, selfish,… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Aging is like enlightenment at gunpoint. Before I had cancer, I lived my life for my art. After I had cancer, I lived my… — Anna Halprin Copy Share Image
All the dangers in our world are like a blessed wake up call. They tell us to live life NOW... not tomorrow, not when… — Susan Jeffers Copy Share Image
“You could see the signs of female aging as diseased, especially if you had a vested interest in making women too see them your… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
Seek ye counsel of the aged for their eyes have looked on the faces of the years and their ears have hardened to the… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
