Logo
Quote by Florida Scott-Maxwell
The crucial task of old age is balance: keeping just well enough,

The crucial task of old age is balance: keeping just well enough, just brave enough, just gay and interested and starkly honest enough to remain a sentient human being. – Florida Scott-Maxwell

Other quotes by Florida Scott-Maxwell

Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age. – Florida Scott-Maxwell

Category:
Age
Author
Florida Scott-Maxwell
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Age
category

The Border Ballads, for instance, and the Robin Hood Ballads, clearly suppose a state of society which is nothing but a very circumscribed and not very important heroic age. – Lascelles Abercrombie

Category:
Age

In fact, my courage and my bravery at a young age was the thing I was bullied for, a kind of Who do you think you are? – Lady Gaga

Category:
Age

I was wrong to grow older. Pity. I was so happy as a child. РAntoine de Saint-Exup̩ry, Flight to Arras, 1942, translated from French by Lewi

Category:
Age

I am old enough to see how little I have done in so much time, and how much I have to do in so little. – Sheila Kaye-Smith

Category:
Age

Random Quotes

I dont have a caustic sense of humor. What I find funny, that humor comes from a much gentler place. – Vera Farmiga

Category:
funny

The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year,
Of wailing winds and naked woods and meadows brown and sere.
Heaped in the hollows of the grove, the autumn leaves lie dead;
They rustle to the eddying gust, and to the rabbit – William Cullen Bryant

Category:
Seasons

I will lift up mine eyes unto the pills. Almost everyone takes them, from the humble aspirin to the multi-coloured, king-sized three deckers, which put you to sleep, wake you up, stimulate and soothe you all in one. It is an age of pills. – Malcolm Muggeridge

Category:
Drugs

If cats were double the size they are now, theyd probably be illegal. – Doug Coupland

Category:
pet