A Quote by Ida Tarbell

Ripe old age, cheerful, useful, and understanding, is one of the finest influences in the world.

Ida Tarbell

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Age Cheerful Finest Influences Old Old Age Ripe Understanding Useful World

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Ida Tarbell
American - Journalist
November 5, 1857 - January 6, 1944

I want to die young at a ripe old age.

Ashley Montagu

I have always thought of myself as an athlete - even at the ripe old age of 52.

Dennis Haysbert

I would like to live to a ripe old age and raise watermelons in Wyoming.

Lou Reed

We all wish to reach a ripe old age, but none of us are prepared to admit that we are already there.

Francisco de Quevedo

When I get to a ripe old age then talk of me as a great cricketer.

Brian Lara

My Bubbie lived to 104, which is probably a little too old to consider a ripe old age, because she had already started to turn. I still say she died young.

Gilbert Gottfried

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.

Lydia M. Child

Yes, I am Canadian, having sailed here from England on a Russian boat called the Alexander Pushkin when I was the ripe old age of 4.

David Hewlett

There are things that neuroscience is useful for in terms of understanding behavior, but there are also things it is not all that useful for, like understanding the nuances of our reactions to poetry.

Alissa Quart

Of all intellectual friendships, none are so beautiful as those which subsist between old and ripe men and their younger brethren in science or literature or art. It is, by these private friendships, even more than by public performance, that the tradition of sound thinking and great doing is perpetuated from age to age.

Philip Gilbert Hamerton

...I had grown up in a world that was dominated by immature age. Not by vigorous immaturity, but by immaturity that was old and tired and prudent, that loved ritual and rubric, and was utterly wanting in curiosity about the new and the strange. Its era has passed away, and the world it made has crumbled around us. Its finest creation, a code of manners, has been ridiculed and discarded.

Ellen Glasgow

A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razorstrap. A thing book is useful to stick under a table with a broken caster to steady it. A large, flat atlas can be used to cover a window with a broken pane. And a thick, old-fashioned heavy book with a clasp is the finest thing in the world to throw at a noisy cat.

Mark Twain

Even if you live to be a ripe old age, you live long enough to see the people you love pass away.

Lisa Joy

Those who are born of parents broken with old age, or of such as are not yet ripe or are too young, or of drunkards, soft or effeminate men, want a great and liberal ingenuity or wit.

Thomas Willis

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