"Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, “Why not?” and the other, “Why bother?”"
― Sydney J. Harris
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Age
More From Sydney J. Harris
- "Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men."
- "It’s surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you’re not comfortable within yourself, you can’t be comfortable with others."
- "The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, “I was wrong”."
More In Age
- "And my real enemy is not to hold the specimen sterile, but it’s the lighting. The light is our real enemy. So we have to work with very very poor lighting. But we can increase the light with computers."― Lennart Nilsson
- "Elizabeth Peyton, the artist known for tiny, dazzling portraits of radiant youth, is now painting tiny, dazzling portraits of radiant middle age."― Jerry Saltz
- "Your body actually reminds you about your age and your injuries – the body has a stronger memory than your mind."― Mikhail Baryshnikov