"Age Doesn't Matter Unless You're a Cheese" -title courtesy of Billie Burke- shares hundreds of the best things men and women over sixty have said about how to love, work, laugh, and live.
Full of surprise, insight, humor, perspective, celebration, inspiration, and a kind of offhand, poignant poetry, it is a collection of quotes from the famous, infamous, and some who have nothing to do with fame, all based upon aging. Some are quite funny, some thought provoking, and some just obvious.
Collected by authors with a perfect ear for quotes, Kathryn and Ross Petras, Age Doesn't Matter brings together Albert Einstein's equation for happiness, Colette on the virtues of astonishment, and Julia Child's secret of longevity:
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"Red meat and gin."It's ill-becoming for an old broad to sing about how bad she wants it. But occasionally we do. -Lena Horne
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"I take a simple view of living. It is: Keep your eyes open and get on with it." -Laurence Olivier
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"The only sin is mediocrity." -Martha Graham
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"When I was young, I found out that the big toe always ends up making a hole in a sock. So I stopped wearing socks." -Albert Einstein
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"Go out on a limb. That's where the fruit is."-Jimmy Carter