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Source: On Architecture: Collected Reflections on a Century of Change

“I think living to be one hundred would be great, but living to fifty twice would be so much better.”

Book:Boomerang Joy: Joy That Goes Around, Comes Around

Source: Boomerang Joy: Joy That Goes Around, Comes Around

“[When asked at age 79 why her Paris apartment was located up many flights of stairs at the top of the building:] It's the only way I can still make the hearts of men beat faster.”

Men Way Heart Stills I Can Age Building Beats Wit Flight Faster Paris Apartment Stairs Why Her

Author:Sarah Bernhardt

“I can't actually see myself putting make-up on my face at the age of sixty, but I can see myself going on a camel train to Samarkand.”

I Can Age Faces Train Aging Sixty Camels Samarkand

Author:Glenda Jackson

“Getting old in America ... best to do it somewhere else.”

Age America Old Age Getting Old Somewhere Else

Book:Tales of Graceful Aging from the Planet Denial

Source: Tales of Graceful Aging from the Planet Denial

“Emily and I have now reached the time in life when not only do we lie about our ages, we forget what we've said they are.”

Said Age Lying Forget Emily

Author:Cornelia Otis Skinner

“Well, that was life. It was an old tree, and the old passed on. Probably they did not mind. There came a time when all sap ran slowly, and the peace of age with all things behind it merged easily into the peace of death. The difficult thing was to be young.”

Mind Wells Age Young Difficult Behinds Tree Youth All Things Ran Difficult Things Sap Be Young Old Trees

Book:The doctor

Source: The doctor

“What a tragedy it was that the only thing age could offer to youth was its own experience, and that the experiences of others were never profitable.”

Age Generations Youth Offers Experience Tragedy Profitable

Book:Lost Ecstasy

Source: Lost Ecstasy

“The only way to make a husband over according to one's ideas ... would be to adopt him at an early age, say four.”

Way Ideas Would Be Age Four Husband

Book:Oh, Well, You Know How Women Are: And Isn't that Just Like a Man

Source: Oh, Well, You Know How Women Are: And Isn't that Just Like a Man

“I was a very ancient twelve; my views at that age would have done credit to a Civil War veteran. I am much younger now than I was at twelve or anyway, less burdened. The weight of the centuries lies on children, I'm sure of it.”

Children War Done Age Lying Views Century Weight Ancient Credit Civil War Twelve Veteran War Veteran

Author:Flannery O'Connor

“The war between authors and publishers has been a conflict of ages. On the one side, the publisher has been looked upon as a species of Wantley dragon, whose daily food was the brain and blood of hapless writers. ... On the other side, the author has been considered, like Shelley, 'an eternal child,' in all that relates to practical matters, and a terrible child at that, - incapable of comprehending details, and unreasoanably dissatisfied with results.”

Children Has Beens War Matter Age Sides Results Brain Blood Terrible Conflict Eternal Species Details Practicals Relate Dragons Incapable Publishers Dissatisfied Comprehending Shelley

Author:Mary Abigail Dodge

“In this new, hyper competitive age, none of us, none of us can afford to be complacent.”

Age Complacent Hyper

Author:Barack Obama

“Knowing few children of my age with whom to compare notes, I envied the children of literature to whom interesting things were always happening.”

Children Age Literature Interesting Knowing Happenings Notes Compare Interesting Things Envied

Book:Hons and Rebels

Source: Hons and Rebels

“We learned at an early age that it was men's interpretation of our religion that restricted women's opportunities, not our religion itself. Islam in fact had been quite progressive toward women from its inception.”

Men Facts Age Opportunity Islam Interpretation Progressive Inception

Book:Daughter of Destiny: An Autobiography

Source: Daughter of Destiny: An Autobiography

“Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.”

Age Morality Aging Curiosity Pregnancy Withered

Book:A Sort Of Life

Source: A Sort Of Life

“One thing they don't tell you about growing old - you don't feel old, you just feel like yourself. And it's true. I don't feel eighty-nine years old. I simply am eighty-nine years old.”

Feels Years Age Growing One Thing Like You Nine Old Age Eighty Growing Old Nine Years Old You Like Yourself

Book:If You Ask Me: (And of Course You Won't)

Source: If You Ask Me: (And of Course You Won't)

“money ... is only important when you have none; and though it may not be everything, it goes a very long way towards blocking up the winter draft of age.”

Way May Long Important Age Winter Block Long Way

Author:Caitlin Thomas

“it is in middle age that the interest of a life attains its highest point.”

Age Interest Middle Highest Middle Ages

Author:Janet Erskine Stuart

“Old age is somewhat like dieting. Every day there is less of us to be observed.”

Age Old Age Dieting

Book:Fifty Days of Solitude: A Memoir

Source: Fifty Days of Solitude: A Memoir

“As in everything else, I find that age is not good for much, that one becomes deafer and less sensitive. Also, the higher up the mountain you climb, the less of a view you get. A mist closes in and cheats you of the hoped-for and expected opportunity to see far and wide.”

Age Opportunity Views Higher Mountain Wide Expected Sensitive Climbs Cheat Mist

Book:The diary and letters of Kaethe Kollwitz

Source: The diary and letters of Kaethe Kollwitz

“Let us confess a truth, humiliating to human pride; - a very small part only of the opinions of the coolest philosopher are the result of fair reasoning; the rest are formed by his education, his temperament, by the age in which he lives, by trains of thought directed to a particular track through some accidental association - in short, by prejudice.”

Humans Age Results Opinion Particular Pride Fairs Prejudice Train Track Philosopher Reasoning Live By Association Temperament Humiliating Small Parts Train Of Thought

Book:Anna Letitia Barbauld: Selected Poetry and Prose

Source: Anna Letitia Barbauld: Selected Poetry and Prose

“as we age we are more alive than seems likely, convenient, or even bearble. Too often our problem is the fervor of life within us. My dear fellow octogenarians, how are we to carry so much life, and what are we to do with it?”

Problem Seems Age Alive Fellows Dear Convenient Fervor

Author:Florida Scott-Maxwell

“As I do not live in an age when rustling black skirts billow about me, and I do not carry an ebony stick to strike the floor in sharp rebuke, as this is denied me, I rap out a sentence in my note book and feel better. If a grandmother wants to put her foot down, the only safe place to do it these days is in a note book.”

Ifs Want Feels Book Age Black Feet Safe Sticks Notes Rap Sentences Strikes These Days Grandmother Denied Feel Better Skirts Rebuke Safe Places Note Book

Author:Florida Scott-Maxwell

“love at any age takes everything you've got.”

Age

Book:Measure of My Days

Source: Measure of My Days

“Another secret we carry is that though drab outside - wreckage to the eye, mirrors a mortification - inside we flame with a wild life that is almost incommunicable.”

Eye Age Secret Mirrors Old Age Flames Mortification Wreckage Wild Life

Book:Measure of My Days

Source: Measure of My Days

“Our age is so gregarious that there is at present a marked prejudice against anyone being alone. It is looked down on, and a need to be alone is almost considered a fault, a weakness, as though if one cannot endure - more - enjoy being with other people every minute one is aloof, unreal, and somehow to be pitied.”

People Ifs Needs Age Enjoy Minutes Solitude Weakness Prejudice Faults Endure Unreal Aloof Gregarious Sociability

Author:Florida Scott-Maxwell

“We look on those approaching the banks of a river all must cross, with ten times the interest they excited when dancing in the meadow.”

Looks Age Interest Ten Rivers Crosses Dancing Excited Old Age Meadows

Book:Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale)

Source: Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale)

“Ages of faith and of unbelief are always said to mark the course of history.”

Said Age Courses Mark Unbelief

Author:Edith Hamilton

“The comedy of each age holds up a mirror to the people of that age, a mirror that is unique.”

People Age Comedy Unique Mirrors

Book:The Roman Way to Western Civilization

Source: The Roman Way to Western Civilization

“Youth is cause, effect is age; so with the thickening of the neck we get data.”

Age Causes Effects Youth Data Necks

Book:Nightwood

Source: Nightwood

“A woman's work, from the time she gets up to the time she goes to bed, is as hard as a day at war, worse than a man's working day. ... To men, women's work was like the rain-bringing clouds, or the rain itself. The task involved was carried out every day as regularly as sleep. So men were happy - men in the Middle Ages, men at the time of the Revolution, and men in 1986: everything in the garden was lovely.”

Men War Hard Age Women Sleep Middle Revolution Involved Bed Rain Garden Tasks Clouds Lovely Get Up Inequality Sexism Middle Ages Men Women Happy Man

Author:Marguerite Duras

“I often think when a man's once past a certain age, the older he grows the tougher he gets, and women the same or more so.”

Thinking Men Age Past Certain Grows Aging

Book:Whose Body?

Source: Whose Body?

“It was left for the present age to endow Covetousness with glamour on a big scale, and to give it a title which it could carry like a flag. It occurred to somebody to call it Enterprise. From the moment of that happy inspiration, Covetousness has gone forward and never looked back.”

Giving Moments Bigs Inspiration Age Left Business Gone Greed Scales Titles Enterprise Flags Glamour Covetousness

Author:Dorothy L. Sayers

“I have never yet heard any middle-aged man or woman who worked with his or her brains express any regret for the passing of youth.”

Men Age Brain Heard Middle Youth Regret Passing Passings Middle Ages Middle Aged

Author:Dorothy L. Sayers

“At the age of thirty-five, I have just begun to become the kind of person who could understand the kind of book I would want to write.”

Want Writing Kind Persons Book Age Five Thirty

Author:Ingrid Bengis

“Twenty-three is said to be the prime of life by those who have reached so far and no farther. It shares this distinction with every age, from ten to three-score and ten.”

Said Age Three Share Ten Twenties Distinction Score Prime Prime Of Life

Book:I Pose

Source: I Pose

“My grandmother refused to concede that any member of the family died of natural causes. An uncle's cancer in middle age occurred because all the suitcases fell off the luggage rack onto him when he was in his teens, and so forth. Death was an acquired characteristic.”

Age Causes Natural Middle Members Died Cancer Characteristics Grandmother Teens Uncles My Grandmother Middle Ages Suitcases Racks Luggage

Book:Speedboat

Source: Speedboat

“The body, after all, older and wiser than soul, being first created, and, like a good horse, if given its way would go home by the best path and at the right pace.”

Ifs Way Firsts Soul Home Body Age Given Path Horse Old Age Pace Wiser Good Horse

Book:The diaries of Sylvia Townsend Warner

Source: The diaries of Sylvia Townsend Warner

“I realize that it is as one ages and loses one's natural force that one is at the mercy of heredity. The young are themselves: the aging, their parents' children.”

Children Age Young Force Parent Realizing Loses Natural Mercy Aging Heredity Parent Child

Book:The diaries of Sylvia Townsend Warner

Source: The diaries of Sylvia Townsend Warner

“It is always wise to make too much potato salad. Even if you are cooking for two, make enough for five. Potato salad improves with age - that is, if you are lucky enough to have any left over.”

Ifs Two Enough Age Left Five Too Much Wise Food Lucky Cooking Potatoes Salad Potato Salad

Author:Laurie Colwin

“It is a characteristic of old age to find the progress of time accelerated. The less one accomplishes in a given time, the shorter does the retrospect appear.”

Doe Age Given Progress Accomplish Old Age Characteristics Retrospect

Author:Wilhelm von Humboldt

“The first time an autograph hunter told me, 'You are my mother's favorite actress,' I aged twenty years.”

Years Firsts Age Mother First Time Twenties Actresses Hunters Autographs

Book:Ingrid Bergman: My Story

Source: Ingrid Bergman: My Story

“This is a city of absolute enchantment in the literal sense of the word. It loosens all the bonds binding the traveller to his own age and sets him free to live in a past that is vital and crude but never ugly. Herat is as old as history and as moving as a great epic poem - if Afghanistan had nothing else it would have been worth coming to experience this.”

Ifs Has Beens Age Past Moving Cities Absolutes Ugly Afghanistan Epic Asia Literal Traveller Crude Binding Enchantment Epic Poems

Book:Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle

Source: Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle

“Is this something else our age does - on the one hand make communication easier than ever before, while on the other hand widening the gulf between those who are 'developed' and those who are not?”

Doe Hands Age Communication Easier

Book:Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle

Source: Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle

“Still on it creeps, Each little moment at another's heels, Till hours, days, years, and ages are made up Of such small parts as these, and men look back Worn and bewilder'd, wondering how it is.”

Men Years Looks Littles Made Stills Moments Age Hours Wonder One Day Heels Worn Creeps Small Parts Little Moments

Book:The Dramatic and Poetical Works of Joanna Baillie ; Complete in One Volume

Source: The Dramatic and Poetical Works of Joanna Baillie ; Complete in One Volume

“Upon becoming fifty the one thing you can't afford is habit.”

Age One Thing Becoming Habit Fifty

Author:Carolyn Heilbrun

“Then there's that 'You're only as old as you feel' business, which is true to a point, but you can't be Shirley Temple on the Good Ship Lollipop forever. Sooner or later, dammit, you're old.”

Feels Age Forever Ships Old Age Temples Sooner Or Later Lollipop

Book:Conversations with Joan Crawford

Source: Conversations with Joan Crawford

“My God, I'm four hundred years old and the most I can do is look three hundred.”

Years Looks I Can Age Three Can Do Four Hundred

Book:Conversations with Joan Crawford

Source: Conversations with Joan Crawford

“In all dying our ages are the same.”

Age Dying

Book:Collected Poems

Source: Collected Poems

“The search of the Holy Grail or the voyage towards a new continent never enlisted so much energy and so much faith as does this pursuit of youth by old age. It is a race not of the fleet but of the most credulous.”

Doe Age Energy Race Youth Holy Pursuit Old Age Continents Voyages Holy Grail Enlisted

Author:Elisabeth Marbury

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