#dom

Hardest of all, as one becomes older, is to accept that sapient remarks can be drawn from the most unwelcome or seemingly improbable sources, and that the apparently more trustworthy sources can lead one astray. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#ageing #henry-kissinger #old-age #sources #wisdom

People talk to old people like they're children.'Oh you're very old aren't you?' Yeah I'm old. I'm not stupid. ↗

— Craig Ferguson

#condescension #wisdom #age

All I want is' - and he uttered the final words through clenched teeth and with a sort of shame - 'to retain my freedom.' I should myself have thought,' said Jacques, 'that freedom consisted in frankly confronting situations into which one had deliberately entered, and accepting all one's responsibilities. But that, no doubt, is not your view. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#age

Surviving cancer is cool, but surviving old age is cooler.
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— Jarod Kintz

#awesome #bizarre #cancer #funny #humor

Escalators are the offspring of elevators and stairs. Love is the progeny of passion and admiration. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#philosophy #wisdom #age

Know, oh prince, that between the years when the oceans drank Atlantis and the gleaming cities, and the years of the rise of the Sons of Aryas, there was an Age undreamed of, when shining kingdoms lay spread across the world like blue mantles beneath the stars. ↗

— Robert E. Howard

#conan #fantasy #kingdoms #wonder #age

One of the poets, whose name I cannot recall, has a passage, which I am unable at the moment to remember, in one of his works, which for the time being has slipped my mind, which hits off admirably this age-old situation. ↗

— P.G. Wodehouse

#humour #knowledge-wisdom #memory #age

I rarely drink, but last night, after several hours and several beers at the bar, I found myself face to face with two huge boobs. They weren’t the breasts of a young woman, but those of an old man. Still, the taste of a nipple is genderless.
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— Jarod Kintz

#alcohol #awesome #bar #bizarre #drinking

Prettiness fades after a few years, but elegance only increases with age. ↗

— Anne Gracie

#elegance #wisdom #age

Seek to learn constantly while you live; do not wait in the faith that old age by itself will bring wisdom. ↗

— Solon

#age