"It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor."
― Andre Gide
Topic(s):
Age
― Andre Gide
More From Andre Gide
- "Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better."
- "Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon."
- "Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow’s joy is possible only if today’s makes way for it; that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one."
More In Age
- "Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man."― James Thurber
- "I started writing when I had three kids under the age of 4. I used to write every ten minutes I got to sit in front of a computer. Now, when I have more time, I function the same way: if it’s writing time, I write."― Jodi Picoult
- "I get all fired up about aging in America."― Willard Scott