"One of the many pleasures of old age…" — Malcolm Muggeridge

"One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up."

— Malcolm Muggeridge

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82 Quotes by Malcolm Muggeridge

Malcolm Muggeridge has 82 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

I will lift mine eyes unto the pills. Almost everyone takes them, from the humble aspirin to the multi-colored, king-sized…
Television was not intended to make human beings vacuous, but it is an emanation of their vacuity.
In retrospect, all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy, what Pascal called, licking the earth.
Travel, of course, narrows the mind.
Education, the great mumbo jumbo and fraud of the age purports to equip us to live and is prescribed as…
This life in us; however low it flickers or fiercely burns, is still a divine flame which no man dare…
Tranquilizers to overcome angst, pep pills to wake us up, life pills to ensure blissful sterility. I will lift up…
It is only possible to succeed at second-rate pursuits - like becoming a millionaire or a prime minister, winning a…
There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or…
Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.
What will finally destroy us is not communism or fascism, but man acting like God.
On television I feel like a man playing piano in a brothel; every now and again he solaces himself by…

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To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would… — Hannah Arendt
We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that. — J. J. Abrams
Education is the best provision for old age. — Aristotle
Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age. — Aristotle
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. — Aristotle
I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become… — Giorgio Armani
I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn't think I… — Paul Auster
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. — Matthew Arnold
You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real. — Victoria Abril
In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time.… — Brooks Atkinson
Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. — Margaret Atwood
For years I wanted to be older, and now I am. — Margaret Atwood

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