At 60 the sexual preoccupation, when it hits you, seems sometimes sharper, as if it were an elderly malady, like gout.

Quote by Edmund Wilson

Topics: Elderly Quotes, Sex Quotes

There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.

There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.

No two persons ever read the same book.

No two persons ever read the same book.

I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind.

I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind.

His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on...

His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on...

The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society.

The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society.

The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations - like that...

The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations - like that...

No two people read the same book.

No two people read the same book.

No two persons ever read the same book.

No two persons ever read the same book.

Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals.

Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals.

If I could only remember that the days were, not bricks to be laid row...

If I could only remember that the days were, not bricks to be laid row...

All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.

All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.

Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine.

Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine.

I'll tell 'ya how to stay young: Hang around with older people

I'll tell 'ya how to stay young: Hang around with older people

Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I...

Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I...

Sure I'm for helping the elderly. I'm going to be old myself someday.

Sure I'm for helping the elderly. I'm going to be old myself someday.

I grow old learning something new everyday.

I grow old learning something new everyday.

An old man is twice a child.

An old man is twice a child.

Old age has been charged with being insensible to pleasure and to enjoyments arising from...

Old age has been charged with being insensible to pleasure and to enjoyments arising from...

In the old days villains had moustaches and kicked the dog. Audiences are smarter today....

In the old days villains had moustaches and kicked the dog. Audiences are smarter today....

You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the...

You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the...

I wouldn't recommend sex, drugs or insanity for everyone, but they've always worked for me.

I wouldn't recommend sex, drugs or insanity for everyone, but they've always worked for me.