"One never knows when one is old for certain."

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Source : Enid Bagnold (1970). “Four plays”

Enid Bagnold

#Age Quotes #Certain Quotes

“The safe places could only be visited; they could only grant a momentary intuition of sanctuary. The moment always came when we had to return to our real life to face the wounds and grief indigenous to our homr by the river.”
“Anyone who contributes to the defense fund of pornographers is a mental moonbeam.”
“I give everything I have to give on the screen. I feel I don't owe the public anything else.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Had Mother Nature been a real parent, she would have been in jail for child abuse and murder.”

Source : "In Defense of Posthuman Dignity". Bioethics, Vol. 19, No. 3, nickbostrom.com. 2005.
“The essential thing is not knowledge, but character.”

Source : Joseph LeConte (1896). “Evolution: Its Nature, Its Evidences, and Its Relation to Religious Thought”
“Texas is a country in its own. It's made up of half Mexico/half United States but completed mixed. I don't mean to draw a generalization but it is a place, a territory, that's really made up of all these encounters, you know?”
“Good words cool more than cold water.”

Source : John Ray, John Belfour (1813). “A complete collection of English proverbs: also, the most celebrated proverbs of the Scotch, Italian, French, Spanish, and other languages”, p.175
“Law is the highest reason implanted in Nature, which commands what ought to be done and forbids the opposite.”

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