The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.

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About Saki

Portrait of Saki

Hector Hugh Munro (18 December 1870 – 14 November 1916), popularly known by his pen name Saki and also frequently as H. H. Munro, was a British writer whose witty, mischievous and sometimes macabre stories satirise Edwardian society and culture. He is considered to be a master of the short...

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He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.

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He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.

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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.

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When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick.

—George Burns

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We often hear of the beauties of old age, but the only old age that is beautiful is the one the man has been long preparing for by living a beautiful life. Every one of us is right now preparing for old age.… There may be a substitute somewhere in the world for Good Nature, but I do not know where it can be found. The secret of salvation is this: keep sweet, be useful, and keep busy.

—Elbert Hubbard

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Old women snore violently. They are like bodies into which bizarre animals have crept at night; the animals are vicious, bawdy, noisy. How they snore! There is no shame to their snoring. Old women turn into old men.

—Joyce Carol Oates

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Old people are fond of giving good advice; it consoles them for no longer being capable of setting a bad example.

—Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Old age was growing inside me. It kept catching my eye from the depths of the mirror. I was paralyzed sometimes as I saw it making its way toward me so steadily when nothing inside me was ready for it.

—Simone de Beauvoir

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