"The pleasure of one's effect on other people still exists in age - what's called making a hit. But the hit is much rarer and made of different stuff."

Age, People, Effect, Pleasure

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"The pleasure of one's effect on other people still exists in age - what's called making a hit. But the hit is much rarer and made of different stuff."

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"As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of 'do it yourself.'"

Marshall McLuhan, Canadian Sociologist

Age, Technology

"Old age is fifteen years older than I am."

Oliver Wendell Holmes, American Writer

Age, Old, Years

"If life really begins at forty, then all poor people die in their teens."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Age, Aging, Poverty, Truth, Statistics

"American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age."

Marshall McLuhan, Canadian Sociologist

Age, American, Importance, Voting

"I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am."

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

Age, Man, Old, Will

"Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little."

David Herbert Lawrence, English Writer

Age,

"What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories."

W. Somerset Maugham, British Playwright

Age, Burden, Memories, Old

"Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards."

George Orwell, British Author

Age, Feelings

"With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

Age, Wisdom, Life, Time

"Patience makes a women beautiful in middle age."

Elliot Paul, American Journalist

Age, Women, Middleage, Patience

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"In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring."

Marriage

"Judges don't age; time decorates them."

Time

"If a dog doesn't put you first where are you both? In what relation? A dog needs God. It lives by your glances, your wishes. It even shares your humor. This happens about the fifth year. If it doesn't happen you are only keeping an animal."

God

"As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to."

Death

"The theatre is a gross art, built in sweeps and over-emphasis. Compromise is its second name."

Art

"When a man goes through six years training to be a doctor he will never be the same. He knows too much."

Man

"A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again."

Family

"The pleasure of one's effect on other people still exists in age - what's called making a hit. But the hit is much rarer and made of different stuff."

Age