The shades of respectability begin to close about ... -Mason Cooley

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The shades of respectability begin to close about the greying head.

Mason Cooley , Writer
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Mason Cooley Quotes to Explore

Humor does not rescue us from unhappiness, but enables us to move back from it a little....
Only the broken-hearted know the truth about love....
Travelers never think that they are the foreigners....
Every day begins with an act of courage and hope: getting out of bed....
Money is to my social existence what health is to my body....
Even cats grow lonely and anxious....
A happy arrangement: many people prefer cats to other people, and many cats prefer people to other cats....
Cats are inquisitive, but hate to admit it....
As equality increases, so does the number of people struggling for predominance....
Human society sustains itself by transforming nature into garbage....

Age Quotes to Explore

There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken Engl...
The Atomic Age is here to stay - but are we?...
I grew up in Welwyn Garden City, and when you're a woman of colour in a predominantly white area, you become aware of prejudice from a young age....
In the digital age of 'overnight' success stories such as Facebook, the hard slog is easily overlooked....
Some fighters had blinding speed and reflexes in their heyday but faded badly with age....
I prefer to look at a natural woman. A woman should be courageous to become older, not desperate to look younger than her age....
Nobody under the age of 55 should be able to stand for election, and nobody under the age of 30 should be able to vote in those elections....
Although reading the classics in Latin in school may be not as fulfilling as it would be at a more mature age, few scientists can afford the time for ...
Maybe at some level, even at an early age, without ever being aware of it, I was reacting to something. To people judging me based on how I looked ins...
I came to America at such a young age, and I was so naive that I didn't realise what I was getting myself into; maybe that's why it worked out for me....