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Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.


Lydia Maria Child

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OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, SR. To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old.
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MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO We grow old more through indolence, than through age
CHRISTINA OF SWEDEN My age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE My age is as a lusty winter, frosty, but kindly.
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Thy home may be lo...
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LYDIA MARIA CHILD But men never violate the laws of God without suffering the consequences, sooner or later.
LYDIA MARIA CHILD Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father!
LYDIA MARIA CHILD Every human being has, like Socrates, an attendant spirit; and wise are they who obey its signals. I...
LYDIA MARIA CHILD Over the river and through the wood,
To grandfather's house we go;
The horse knows the way LYDIA MARIA CHILD Reverence is the highest quality of man's nature; and that individual, or nation, which has it sligh...
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WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave.
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THE DHAMMAPADA A lovely being, scarcely formed or moulded, A rose with all its sweetest leaves yet folded.
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) Age is opportunity no less than youth itself.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW What is there more kindly than the feeling between host and guest?
AESCHYLUS In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.
SOCRATES People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.
HENRY GILES I had a beautiful childhood and a lovely childhood. I just didn't like being a child. I didn'...
DAVID RAKOFF I know of nothing more laughable than a doctor who does not die of old age.
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) I know of nothing more laughable than a doctor who does not die of old age.
VOLTAIRE It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the w...
MARGARET MEAD What could be more beautiful than a dear old lady growing wise with age? Every age can be enchanting...
BRIGITTE BARDOT Genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will, childhood equipped now with man's physical mean...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE There is more in you of good than you know, child of the kindly West. Some courage and some wisdom, ...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of mode...
THOMAS SZASZ The history of human opinion is scarcely anything more than the history of human errors.
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) The history of human opinion is scarcely anything more than the history of human errors.
VOLTAIRE Sunrise paints the sky with pinks and the sunset with peaches. Cool to warm. So is the progression f...
VERA NAZARIAN Old age is fifteen years older than I am.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Most of the time when kids get in trouble, alcohol is involved. A child who starts drinking at age 1...
ATTORNEY GENERAL STEVEN ROWE Make wisdom your provision for the journey from youth to old age, for it is a more certain support t...
BIAS On the whole, age comes more gently to those who have some doorway into an abstract world-art, or ph...
FREYA STARK We've put more effort into helping folks reach old age than into helping them enjoy it.
FRANK A. CLARK As in this body, there are for the embodied one childhood, youth, old age, even so is there the taki...
THE BHAGAVAD GITA In naked beauty more adorned More lovely than Pandora.
JOHN MILTON Old age is always 15 years older than I am.
BERNARD BARUCH Old age is always fifteen years older than I am.
BERNARD M. BARUCH Old age is always 15 years older than I am.
BERNARD M. BARUCH A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
MARY ALICE MESSENGER The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five- year old men more
COLLEEN MCCULLOUGH Old age isn't a battle; old age is a massacre.
PHILIP ROTH Your pain is a school unto itself–– and your joy a lovely temple.
ABERJHANI Just as old age is creeping on space, And clouds come o'er the sunset of our day, They kindly ...
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) In childhood, instincts dictate the behavior; in youth, hormones goad the behavior and; in old age, ...
DR HITESH C SHETH Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
ALEXANDER POPE Therefore my age is as a lusty winter, Frosty, but kindly. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 3.
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MITCH ALBOM We've put more effort into helping folks reach old age than into helping them enjoy it.
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JOHN LYLY There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marr...
MARTIN LUTHER There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marria...
MARTIN LUTHER Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recaptured at will.
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RUTH REICHL It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.
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MRS. LYDIA MARIA CHILD Do not make children cross-eyed, by having hair hang about their foreheads, where they see it contin...
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LYDIA LUNCH In Nagasaki, American planes did drop warning leaflets - but not till Aug. 10, a day after the city ...
LYDIA MILLET In Hiroshima, bombed Aug. 6, 1945, no warning was given of the air attack, and thus no escape was po...
LYDIA MILLET Oil drilling and coal mining are killing endangered wildlife, polluting rivers, creating smog over w...
LYDIA MILLET If you think of something, do it.

Plenty of people often think, “I’d like to do this,...
LYDIA DAVIS The strength of a nation, especially of a republican nation, is in the intelligent and well ordered ...
LYDIA SIGOURNEY In early childhood you may lay the foundation of poverty or riches, industry of idleness, good or ev...
LYDIA SIGOURNEY The American way of life, as I see it, is really the American way of death. Everything is determined...
LYDIA LUNCH Ever since they announced that golf would be returning to the Olympics, I thought, 'Hey, I wanna...
LYDIA KO For almost two centuries, American gray wolves, vilified in fact as well as fiction, were the victim...
LYDIA MILLET Because we have so much eye candy and mind candy, spending so much time trying to pay the rent, all ...
LYDIA LUNCH The comic novels I did when I was in my 20s had a harder edge - less sympathy for people. Or a sympa...
LYDIA MILLET I've never wanted a quiet life.
LYDIA CACHO I just prefer instrumental. I don't need to hear what other people are singing. And if I need mu...
LYDIA LUNCH In October 2014, for the first time in almost three-quarters of a century, a gray wolf was seen lopi...
LYDIA MILLET I can be pretty dense about my own basic needs, when my focus is getting through the many small task...
LYDIA MILLET I'm a very sympathetic person, but that doesn't always come across in my work because I'...
LYDIA LUNCH I'm nihilistic, antagonistic, violent, horrible - but not obliterated, yet. I just refuse to be ...
LYDIA LUNCH If I was writing about an academic or a more difficult person, I would use the Latinate vocabulary m...
LYDIA DAVIS When it comes to American Indians, mainstream America suffers from willful blindness.
LYDIA MILLET I've played such good golf, and it was hard coming up and it wasn't easy in any matches or a...
LYDIA KO African elephants have long been thought of as a single species, but a critical mass of genetic stud...
LYDIA MILLET Within the macho-melodrama tropes of the superhero genre, it's fair to say 'Watchmen' st...
LYDIA MILLET If people could understand how much pleasure they could have by themselves, I think everyone would b...
LYDIA LUNCH