"Old age is wasted on the elderly: the……" — Herbert Gold

"Old age is wasted on the elderly: the young know what to do with it-insist on something different."

— Herbert Gold

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15 Quotes by Herbert Gold

Herbert Gold has 15 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

He carried his childhood like a hurt warm bird held to his middle-aged breast.
Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands of living on their nerves,…
The fact that all of us die anyway (the rumor turns out to be true) is a mere detail in…
The would-bees take their honey from the flowers of creation.
Conformity is inevitable when folks huddle together in rebellion.
Catastrophe and desire are linked in our lives as the moon is linked to that reflected light from the sun…
If mankind is naturally good, he is sure going against his nature more and more of the time. It sounds…
The magic will which makes us see the other side of our natures-dream and disaster, catastrophe and fulfillment-is the great…
Isolation from power makes men look for a mob in which they can be strong.
The steady pressure to consume, absorb, participate, receive, by eye, ear, mouth, and mail involves a cruelty to intestines, blood…
To construct a proper privacy, making it a privilege rather than a burden, we first need to construct a community-love,…
Being a writer is a rather hazardous occupation and there is a horribly high rate of writers who barely have…

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More Age Quotes

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To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would… — Hannah Arendt
We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that. — J. J. Abrams
Education is the best provision for old age. — Aristotle
Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age. — Aristotle
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. — Aristotle
I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become… — Giorgio Armani
I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn't think I… — Paul Auster
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. — Matthew Arnold
You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real. — Victoria Abril
In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time.… — Brooks Atkinson
Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. — Margaret Atwood
For years I wanted to be older, and now I am. — Margaret Atwood

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