• All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh.
• I have found it to be true that the older I've become the better my life has become.
• The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.
• And then, not expecting it, you become middle-aged and anonymous. No one notices you. You achieve a wonderful freedom.
• For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying.
• Bed is the best place for reading, thinking, or doing nothing.
• Borrowing is not much better than begging; just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing.
• I was brought up on the farm in the bush, which was the best thing that happened, it was just a wonderful childhood.
• None of you [men] ask for anything -- except everything, but just for so long as you need it.
• A woman without a man cannot meet a man, any man, without thinking, even if it's for a half second, perhaps this is the man.
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Quote collection assembled by Jone Johnson Lewis. Each quotation page in this collection and the entire collection © Jone Johnson Lewis 1997-2005. This is an informal collection assembled over many years. I regret that I am not be able to provide the original source if it is not listed with the quote.
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