#age

With age comes arthritis, accompanied by a more abstract form of rigidity. Occasionally though, when your birthday presents are books by history’s greatest minds, age brings theoretical rigidity too. ↗

— Bauvard

#funny #humor #age

Academia: a contemporary version of medieval scholasticism that updates the scholarship while retaining the fanaticism of the dark ages. ↗

— Bauvard

#funny #humor #medievalism #age

And then I know I'm being a man, not just some kid who's upset and wants it his way. ↗

— Angela Johnson

#coming-of-age #growing-up #age

He glanced around the reading room and closed his eyes, trying to keep hold of the past for a minute longer, a fattening and hungover middle-aged historian in a black corduroy suit. ↗

— Robert Harris

#robert-harris #age

A human being in this aged nation of ours is a very wonderful hole, the slow creation of long interchanging influences; and charm is a result of two such wholes, the one loving and the one loved. ↗

— George Eliot

#wholeness #age

Into the breach, then. Against mobs of middle-aged moms and frightening harridans we shall prevail.” She nodded sharply, raising an invisible sword. “And damned be he—she—who cries, ‘Hold, enough!’” “Misquote Shakespeare in front of Samuel, I dare you,” I told her, and she laughed. ↗

— Patricia Briggs

#frost-burned #humor #jesse-hauptman #mercy-thompson #samuel-cornick

With older people, it's quite different. They're reliable, they show you what to do, and there's solidity in their affection. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#age

What did I think of Princeton? Well, the answer to that question requires a story. When I first arrived, I looked around me at the Gothic buildings — younger, I later learned, than many of the mosques of this city, but made through acid treatment and ingenious stone-masonry to look older... ↗

— Mohsin Hamid

#age

We do not measure a culture based on its output of undisguised trivialities, but what it claims as significant. ↗

— Neil Postman

#recreation #age

enchantment is the means through which we may gain access to sacredness. Entertainment is the means through which we distance ourselves from it. ↗

— Neil Postman

#age