A quotation from Thomas Bastard
Age is deformed, youth unkinde,Thomas Bastard (1565–1618) English clergyman, epigrammist
Chrestoleros, Book 7, Epigram 9 “De senectute & juventute” (7.9) (1598)
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Philosopher #ThomasHobbes wrote that #laughter is “a sudden #glory, arising from sudden conception of some #eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the #infirmity of others, or with our own formerly”.
Interpretation: we laugh when we are good, when others are not, or at our previous (not good) selves.
A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson
There is something irreverent in the speculation, but perhaps the want of power has more to do with the wise resolutions of age than we are always willing to admit. It would be an instructive experiment to make an old man young again and leave him all his savoir. I scarcely think he would put his money in the Savings Bank after all; I doubt if he would be such an admirable son as we are led to expect; and as for his conduct in love, I believe firmly he would out-Herod Herod, and put the whole of his new compeers to the blush.Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
Essay (1878-03), “Crabbed Age and Youth,” Cornhill Magazine, Vol. 37
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A quotation from Twain, Mark:
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Man seems to be a rickety poor sort of a thing, any way you take him; a kind of British Museum of infirmities and inferiorities. He is always undergoing repairs. A machine that was as unreliable as he is would have no market.
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Man seems to be a rickety poor sort of a thing, any way you take him; a kind of British Museum of infirmities and inferiorities. He is always undergoing repairs. A machine that was as unreliable as he is would have no market.
A quotation from Beauvoir, Simone de:
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To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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