"They talk about a woman's sphere, as though it had a limit. There's not a place in earth or heaven. There's not a task to mankind given... without a woman in it."

Field, Kate on women   

"Old age though despised, is coveted by all."

Proverb on age and aging   

"A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality."

Pindar on age and aging   

"Live your life and forget your age."

Peale, Norman Vincent on age and aging
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"Age doesn't matter, unless you're cheese."

Burke, Billie on age and aging
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"The age demanded that we dance and jammed us into iron pants. And in the end the age was handed the sort of shit that it demanded."

Hemingway, Ernest on twentieth century   

"Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth."

Cicero, Marcus T. on age and aging   

"Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age."

Moreau, Jeanne on age and aging
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"Whatever poet, orator, or sage may say of it, old age is still old age."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on age and aging   

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"About the only thing that comes without effort is old age.."

Unknown, Source on effort
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"Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life."

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De on experience
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"Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art."

Kanin, Garson on age and aging
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"Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age."

Child, Lydia M. on age and aging   

"Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life."

Auber, Daniel Francois Esprit on age and aging
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"You are young at any age if you are planning for tomorrow."

Unknown, Source on age and aging   

"What is an adult? A child blown up by age."

Beauvoir, Simone De on adulthood
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"Youth has no age."

Picasso, Pablo on youth
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"What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew."

Browning, Robert on youth
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"My age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly."

Shakespeare, William on age and aging   

"Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself."

Ziggy on wisdom
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"Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age."

Hugo, Victor on age and aging
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"Some will not recognize the truthfulness of my mirror. Let them remember that I am not here to reflect the surface... but must penetrate inside. My mirror probes down to the heart. I write words on the forehead and around the corners of the mouth. My human faces are truer than the real ones."

Klee, Paul on portraits   

"Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image"

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on behavior
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"Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror."

Gibran, Kahlil on beauty
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"The best mirror is an old friend."

Proverb on appearance
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"From man or angel the great Architect did wisely to conceal, and not divulge his secrets to be scanned by them who ought rather admire; or if they list to try conjecture, he his fabric of the heavens left to their disputes, perhaps to move his laughter at their quaint opinions wide hereafter, when they come to model heaven calculate the stars, how they will wield the mighty frame, how build, unbuild, contrive to save appearances, how gird the sphere with centric and eccentric scribbled o'er, and epicycle, orb in orb."

Milton, John on science   

"There is no chance, and no anarchy, in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on luck
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"What is mind but motion in the intellectual sphere?"

Wilde, Oscar on mind
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"An attempt at visualizing the Fourth Dimension: Take a point, stretch it into a line, curl it into a circle, twist it into a sphere, and punch through the sphere."

Einstein, Albert on visualization
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"There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it."

Wharton, Edith on giving
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"Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey."

Chazal, Malcolm De on love
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"About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm."

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt on astrology
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"Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time."

Richter, Jean Paul on birthdays
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"Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size."

Woolf, Virginia on women
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"Self-revelation is a cruel process. The real picture, the real you never emerges. Looking for it is as bewildering as trying to know how you really look. Ten different mirrors show you ten different faces."

Deshpande, Shashi on introspection   

"Sisters are always drying their hair. Locked into rooms, alone, they pose at the mirror, shoulders bare, trying this way and that their hair, or fly importunate down the stair to answer the telephone."

Mcginley, Phyllis on family
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"The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself."

Shaw, George Bernard on friends and friendship
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"Our masks, always in peril of smearing or cracking, in need of continuous check in the mirror or silverware, keep us in thrall to ourselves, concerned with our surfaces."

Kizer, Carolyn on faces   

"Perception is a mirror not a fact. And what I look on is my state of mind, reflected outward."

A Course In Miracles on perception
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"Alas after a certain age, every man is responsible for his own face."

Camus, Albert on faces
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