#senility

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. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#certain #conceited #countries #god #hate

It is a pledge that senility has not the last say in everything. ↗

— Shane Leslie

#last #pledge #say #senility

It is pardonable for children to yell that they believe in fairies, but it is somehow sinister when the piping note shifts from the puerile to the senile. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#fairies #hero-worship #john-f-kennedy #kennedy-family #politics

You know, I have found a new way to get high and stay spaced out for hours on end, and the government can't stop me... It's called senility. ↗

— Robert Anton Wilson

#end #found #get #government #high

A Church which has lost its memory is in a sad state of senility. ↗

— Henry Chadwick

#lost #memory #sad #senility #state

It was at this moment that I wrote my first important paper in theoretical physics. I was 32 years old, 5 years beyond the alleged age of senility for theorists. ↗

— Robert B. Laughlin

#alleged #beyond #first #i #important

I went from adolescence to senility, trying to bypass maturity. ↗

— Tom Lehrer

#bypass #i #maturity #senility #trying

I am in the prime of my senility. ↗

— Joel Chandler Harris

#i #i am #prime #senility

Death is coming—but hopefully not before old age, decrepitude, and senility.
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— Jarod Kintz

#body #death #decrepit #decrepitude #humor

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. For the young we scarcely exist unless we are unavoidable members of the same family, farting, slobbering, perpetually mislaying teeth and bifocals. ↗

— Patrick White

#false-teeth #farting #myths #old-age #senility