#graceful

It has been my face. It's got older still, or course, but less, comparatively, than it would otherwise have done. It's scored with deep, dry wrinkles, the skin is cracked. But my face hasn't collapsed, as some with fine feature have done. It's kept the same contours, but its substance has been laid waste. I have a face laid waste. ↗

— Marguerite Duras

#aging-gracefully #age

The land of easy mathematics where he who works adds up and he who retires subtracts. ↗

— Núria Añó

#ageing #aging #aging-gracefully #economy #getting-older

Golf is an awkward set of bodily contortions designed to produce a graceful result. ↗

— Tommy Armour

#bodily #designed #golf #graceful #produce

I have a hat. It is graceful and feminine and give me a certain dignity, as if I were attending a state funeral or something. Someday I may get up enough courage to wear it, instead of carrying it. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

#carrying #certain #courage #dignity #enough

The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face. ↗

— Sydney J. Harris

#argument #being #escape #face #gracefully

A child is owed the greatest respect; if you have ever have something disgraceful in mind, don't ignore your son's tender years. ↗

— Juvenal

#disgraceful #ever #greatest #ignore #mind

Ersken gathered the dice, put them in the cup they had used for play, and tucked it inside one bound Rat's shirt. "Let that be a lesson to you not to gamble," he told the Rat soberly. "The trickster asks you pay for any luck you may have, one way or another." "Bless the boy, he's a priest with it," one of the Goddess warriors said with a grin. "After this, laddie, what's say I take you home and rub some of that off yez?" Ersken actually winked at her! "Forgive me, gracious warrior, but my woman would turn me into something unnatural if I took you up on your kind offer," he replied as if he truly regretted it. "She's a mage and I'd best stay devoted. ↗

— Tamora Pierce

#gamblers #graceful-letdown #guards #repriminding #forgiveness

The trick is to be grateful when your mood is high and graceful when it is low. ↗

— Richard Carlson

#graceful #grateful #high #low #mood

People's opinions don't interfere with me. Ageing gracefully is supposed to mean trying not to hide time passing and just looking a wreck. That's what they call ageing gracefully. You know? ↗

— Jeanne Moreau

#call #gracefully #hide #interfere #just

Drinking habits were very prevalent among men, and were not in any way disgraceful, unless excessive. ↗

— Catherine Helen Spence

#any #disgraceful #drinking #excessive #habits