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Just like those who are incurably ill, the aged know everything about their dying except exactly when.
就像那些身患绝症的人一样,老年人知道他们死亡的一切,只是不知道确切的时间。
— Philip Roth 菲利普·罗斯
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更多好句 ↗We've put more effort into helping folks reach old age than into helping them enjoy it.
我们把更多的精力放在帮助人们进入老年,而不是帮助他们享受老年生活。
Frank Howard Clark
弗兰克·霍华德·克拉克
Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.
和我一起变老!最好的还在后头。
Robert Browning
罗伯特·布朗宁
Breaking with old friends is one of the most painful of the changes in all that piling up of a multitude of small distasteful changes that constitutes growing older.
随着年龄的增长,一大堆令人不快的小变化堆积在一起,而与老朋友分手是其中最痛苦的变化之一。
John Dos Passos
约翰·多斯·帕索斯
It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.
这是我们这个时代的弊病,年轻人忙于教导我们,以至于他们没有时间去学习。
Eric Hoffer
埃里克·霍弗
Men should be judged not by their tint of skin, the gods they serve, the vintage they drink, nor by the way they fight, or love, or sin, but by the quality of the thought they think.
评判一个人,不应该看他的肤色、他所侍奉的神、他喝的酒的年份,也不应该看他打架、恋爱或犯罪的方式,而应该看他思考的品质。
Adela Florence Nicolson
阿德拉·弗洛伦斯·尼科尔森
Age wins and one must learn to grow old.
年龄是赢家,人必须学会变老。
Lady Diana Cooper
戴安娜·库珀女士