Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

That folly of old age which is called dotage is peculiar to silly old men, not to age itself.

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

The worst old age is that of the mind.

There is not a man who does not get senile by the time he reaches sixty. And when one thinks that he will not be senile, he is already so.

You know, as you get older, the first thing you lose is memory. It seems to be happening with me.

Age carries all things away, even the mind.

With increasing age, dullness of mind and heart sets in.

My grandfather said, "When you become senile, you won't know it."

It is wonderful to me that old men should not be sensible that their minds keep pace with their bodies in the progress of decay.

Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!

I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.

The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.

Our brain starts a long degenerative arc beginning around age 40.

When you become senile, you won't know it.

My eyesight is not nearly as good. My hearing is probably going away. My memory is slipping too. But I'm still around.

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.

Have you not a moist eye, a dry hand, a yellow cheek, a white beard, a decreasing leg, an increasing belly? Is not your voice broken, your wind short, your chin double, your wit single, and every part about you blasted with antiquity?

When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to do it.

For as the body grows old, so the wits grow old and become blind towards all things alike.

Some things get better with age, but after a certain point, the mind isn't among them.

A good old man, sir. He will be talking. As they say, when the age is in, the wit is out.

As I get older and I get more of this dialogue and I lose more and more brain cells, it really does become the most difficult part of the job!

The old are in a second childhood.

I'm not as sharp as I used to be.