I think you can make fun of anything except things people can't help. They can't help their race or their sex or their age, so you ridicule their pretension or their ego instead. You can ridicule ideas - ideas don't have feelings. You can ridicule an idea that someone holds without hurting them.
Copy QuoteAnyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
Copy Quote View & ShareI don't feel old. I don't feel anything till noon. That's when it's time for my nap.
Copy Quote View & ShareOld age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.
Copy Quote View & ShareAs I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
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