"it is in middle age that the interest of a life attains its highest point."

-- Janet Erskine Stuart

#Age Quotes #Middle Quotes #Interest Quotes

“I would be a vegetarian if the food was better.”
“The truly wise talk little about religion and are not given to taking sides on doctrinal issues. When they hear people advocating or opposing the claims of this or that party in the church, they turn away with a smile such as men yield to the talk of children. They have no time, they would say, for that kind of thing. They have enough to do in trying to faithfully practice what is beyond dispute.”
“I love my body because it's what I've been given. Being too thin is just as unhealthy as being obese.”
“Only the ego resists egos. The spirit may notice egos, but sees beyond them and does not engage with them.”
“S. E. Smith's I Live in a Hut has a deceptively simple title, considering that the brain in that hut contains galaxies-worth of invention: At night when your soldiers are praying ceaselessly for less rain and more underwear my soldiers make underwear out of rain. These poems seesaw between despair and delight but delight is winning the battle. Smith is a somersaulting tightrope walker of a poet and her poems will make you look at anything and everything with new eyes: For days I tried to rub the new freckle // off my hand until I realized what it was / and began to grant it its sovereignty.”
“I have gotten more than I asked for. All that I ever wanted was to hear my voice on record and have a song among the Top 20.”
“I wear my Viking helmet because the horns define how sharp my brains are. If you try to rub me the wrong way, I will stick you with both of my horns.”
“Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.”

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