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Agnes Repplier has 73 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that…
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Who that has plodded on to middle age would take back upon his shoulders ten of the vanished years, with their mingled…
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We may fail of our happiness, strive we ever so bravely; but we are less likely to fail if we measure with…
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The gayety of life, like the beauty and the moral worth of life, is a saving grace, which to ignore is folly,…
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A man who listens because he has nothing to say can hardly be a source of inspiration. The only listening that counts…
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There is an optimism which nobly anticipates the eventual triumph of great moral laws, and there is an optimism which cheerfully tolerates…
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Wit is as infinite as love, and a deal more lasting in its qualities.
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Sensuality, too, which used to show itself course, smiling, unmasked, and unmistakable, is now serious, analytic, and so burdened with a sense…
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It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.
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A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever and generally stopping before it gets there.
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Sleep sweetly in the fields of asphodel, and waken, as of old, to stretch thy languid length, and purr thy soft contentment…
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The vanity of man revolts from the serene indifference of the cat.
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Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.
— Francis Bacon
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The chief role of the universities is to prolong adolescence into middle age, at which point early retirement ensures that we lack…
— J. G. Ballard
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Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.
— Franklin P. Adams
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As a precocious teen I dreamed of being Graham Greene. Well, as it turned out, I never wrote a great novel, sadly,…
— Julie Burchill
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I am firmly of the opinion that women who make a lot of effort to hang onto their looks in middle age…
— Julie Burchill
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Middle age is when your old classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you.
— Bennett Cerf
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Middle age: when you begin to exchange your emotions for symptoms.
— Irvin S. Cobb
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The vitality of thought is in adventure. Idea's won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its…
— Alfred North Whitehead
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Youth is like a long weekend on Friday night. Middle age is like a long weekend on Monday afternoon.
— Richard Nelson Bolles
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Perhaps middle-age is, or should be, a period of shedding shells; the shell of ambition, the shell of material accumulations and possessions,…
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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Who that has plodded on to middle age would take back upon his shoulders ten of the vanished years, with their mingled…
— Agnes Repplier
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Middle age: The time when you'll do anything to feel better, except give up what is hurting you.
— Robert Quillen
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