Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art. The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to …

2014年5月24日 · There is a term mutton dressed as lamb but mostly applied to old women. It is also used for old men sometimes. (idiomatic, derogatory) A mature woman dressed in a style more suited to a young woman, especially if in a deliberate attempt to appear young. For men, mutton dressed as ram version is used also.

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2005年11月11日 · Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter. Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. You're only young once, but you can be immature forever. The idea is to die young as late as possible. The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

2009年1月9日 · We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing. The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young. In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. Age is an issue of mind over matter.

2023年3月13日 · Old Age but Look Young Quotes. 1. Age is a reminder of the life we’ve lived, but looking young is a testament to how we’ve lived it. 2. You don’t have to be young to feel young, and you don’t have to look old to feel old. 3. The key to looking young is not to hide your age but to embrace it with grace and confidence. 4.

We see around us every day the growth of new beliefs, which think themselves new, and which are yet but the old, which pretend to be young, like the fine ladies at the opera. Dracula, Chapter 14. Professor Van Helsing sees great value in old beliefs. He says that many beliefs that are put forward as modern are really old ideas dressed up.

2010年10月12日 · A woman of 50 who writes her age as 45, or says 'when I turn 50' as if it's future, is pretending, but she need not act in any particular way. Acting younger, or acting like a child, or acting your age, involves continued or repeated behaviour that is characteristically like that age: perhaps being spoilt, or impulsive, or innocent, like a child.

2020年1月15日 · Those older people who stand out to you probably aren’t “acting “ cool or hip. They are simply themselves, with past experiences and engaged in their lives. It seems strange to me that young people don’t see older folks as whole, 3 dimensional people. I guess I did that too as a young adult.

2016年5月6日 · Please respond to this post with a list of key quotes about how Priestley presents the younger and older generations in the play. Put a key word/phrase summarising the point of each quote next to it. For example: Older generation: SD (Stage Direction - dining table) - 'AB at one end' (patriarchy/family status) Younger generation:…