“ One of those kids somewhere is going to find a cure for senility, and I'm in a hurry, you know. ”
- Leon Lederman- Copy
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“ There are three signs of senility. The first sign is that a man forgets his theorems. The second sign is that he forgets to zip up. The third sign is that he forgets to zip down. ”
- Stanislaw Ulam- Copy
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“ A church which has lost its memory is in a sad state of senility. ”
- Henry Chadwick- Copy
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“ Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile. ”
- Henry B. Adams- Copy
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“ God how I hate new countries: They are older than the old, more sophisticated, much more conceited, only young in a certain puerile vanity more like senility than anything. ”
- D. H. Lawrence- Copy
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“ I would like to believe in the myth that we grow wiser with age. In a sense my disbelief is wisdom. Those of a middle generation, if charitable or sentimental, subscribe to the wisdom myth, while the callous see us as dispensable objects, like broken furniture or dead flowers… ”
- Patrick White- Copy
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“ Victory over senility is a new idea. I don't know of any literature about it as a specific problem, even in the immortal yogi tradition. Senility is either our greatest entertainment if we have the ability to watch ourselves objectively like our own personal drama is a television sitcom, or senility is our greatest nightmare… ”
- Leonard Orr- Copy
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“ I would like to believe when I die that I have given myself away like a tree that sows seed every spring and never counts the loss, because it is not loss, it is adding to future life. It is the tree's way of being. Strongly rooted perhaps, but spilling out its treasure on the wind. ”
- May Sarton- Copy
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“ When I was very young and the urge to be someplace was on me, I was assured by mature people that maturity would cure this itch. When years described me as mature, the remedy prescribed was middle age. In middle age I was assured that greater age would calm my fever and now that I am fifty-eight perhaps senility will do the job… ”
- John Steinbeck- Copy
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“ There is nothing worse than an idle hour, with no occupation offering. People who have many such hours are simply animals waiting docilely for death. We all come to that state soon or late. It is the curse of senility. ”
- H. L. Mencken- Copy
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“ I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142. This is no time to be flitting about the earth. I must cease from the activities proper to youth and begin to take on the dignities and gravities and inertia proper to that season of honorable senility which is on its way. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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