Old age is - a lot of crossed off names in an address book

Quote by Ronald Blythe

Topics: Elderly Quotes

As for the British churchman, he goes to church as he goes to the bathroom,...

As for the British churchman, he goes to church as he goes to the bathroom,...

To be old is to be part of a huge and ordinary multitude... the reason...

To be old is to be part of a huge and ordinary multitude... the reason...

He longed to be lost but he couldn't bear not to be found.

He longed to be lost but he couldn't bear not to be found.

Death used to announce itself in the thick of life but now people drag on...

Death used to announce itself in the thick of life but now people drag on...

The ordinariness of living to be old is too novel a thing to appreciate.

The ordinariness of living to be old is too novel a thing to appreciate.

Old age is - a lot of crossed off names in an address book.

Old age is - a lot of crossed off names in an address book.

There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

Common sense is merely the deposit of prejudice laid down in the human mind before...

Common sense is merely the deposit of prejudice laid down in the human mind before...

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a...

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a...

The age of the book is almost gone.

The age of the book is almost gone.

Perhaps middle-age is, or should be, a period of shedding shells; the shell of ambition,...

Perhaps middle-age is, or should be, a period of shedding shells; the shell of ambition,...

Age is no barrier. It's a limitation you put on your mind.

Age is no barrier. It's a limitation you put on your mind.

Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this...

Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this...

Simplicity is a pleasant thing in children, or at any age, but it is not...

Simplicity is a pleasant thing in children, or at any age, but it is not...

Is there something in trade that desiccates and flattens out, that turns men into dried...

Is there something in trade that desiccates and flattens out, that turns men into dried...

Old age ain't no place for sissies.

Old age ain't no place for sissies.

Age steals away all things, even the mind.

Age steals away all things, even the mind.

Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless,...

Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless,...

Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife; This...

Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife; This...

New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new...

New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new...

Young people don't know what age is, and old people forget what youth was.

Young people don't know what age is, and old people forget what youth was.