#ill

Illusion is Reality's coy lover who cheers him when he is grim. Illusion is cunning to his wisdom of ages, weet oblivion to his knowledge. A bounty to his lack. [Sabine] ↗

— Kresley Cole

#reality #age

It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#catastrophes #deaths #diseases #kill #laugh

An age is called Dark, not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it. ↗

— James A. Michener

#age

Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not find them, they will make them. ↗

— Samuel Smiles

#enough #find #make #men #opportunities

I'm an armchair kind of guy, especially when it's raining, which it always is and always will be. ↗

— Arthur Smith

#armchair #especially #guy #i #kind

I would rather make love than war, but only because condoms kill millions of lives more enjoyably. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#humor #kill #love #war #age

Good-bye -- if you hear of my being stood up against a stone wall and shot to rags please know that I think that a pretty good way to depart this life. It beats old age, disease or falling down the cellar stairs. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#mexico #old-gringo #pancho-villa #the-good #age

There's an old adage," he said, "translated from the ancient Coptic, that contains all the wisdom of the ages -- "Life is life and fun is fun, but it's all so quiet when the goldfish die. ↗

— Beryl Markham

#fun #life #nature #quiet #stillness

A third...candidate for Shakespearean authorship was Christopher Marlowe. He was the right age (just two months older than Shakespeare), had the requisite talent, and would certainly have had ample leisure after 1593, assuming he wasn't too dead to work. ↗

— Bill Bryson

#shakespeare #william-shakespeare #age

William Shakespeare: You will never age for me, nor fade, nor die. ↗

— Marc Norman

#die #fade #shakespeare-in-love #william-shakespeare #age