"When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age."

Age, Dawn, Grace, Old

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"When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age."

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"To come across as younger than they are: Women buy creams that promise to slow aging, men buy fast cars."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Age, Aging, Youth, Gender, Desire

"I can't wait to be that age and hanging out with a bunch of people hanging out all day playing golf and going to the beach, all my own age. We'd be laughing and having a good time and getting loopy on our prescription drugs. Driving golf carts around. I can't wait."

Cameron Diaz, American Actress

Age, Time, People, Beach

"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 would love a family. I'm at the age where the wish for a child gets stronger. But who knows."

Cameron Diaz, American Actress

Age, Love, Family

"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 not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us."

Thomas Carlyle, Scottish Philosopher

Age, Work, Old, Sorrow

"Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?"

Erich Fromm, American Psychologist

Age, Education, Society, Children

"It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again."

William James, American Philosopher

Age, Character, Will, World

"If youth knew; if age could."

Sigmund Freud, Austrian Psychologist

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"Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought."

Emily Dickinson, American Poet

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"Toleration is the best religion."

Religion

"Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty."

Curiosity

"Initiative is doing the right thing without being told."

Being

"It is the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of kings? Yes."

Revolution

"Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization."

Civilization

"And do you know Monsieur Marius? I believe I was a little in love with you."

Romance

"I repeat, whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all."

Humanity

"For a person's nature,like a rock,can be drilled into by drops of water.For a person's nature,like a rock,can be drilled into by drops of water.For a person's nature,like a rock,can be drilled into by drops of water.For a person's nature,like a rock,can be drilled into by drops of water."

Philosophy

"The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness."

Woman

"On coming out of the chapel, a well can be seen on the left. There are two in this yard. You ask, Why is there no bucket and no pulley to this one? Because no water is drawn from it now. Why is no more water drawn from it? Because it is full of skeletons."

Mystery