Only in America do these peasants, our mothers, get their hair dyed platinum at the age of sixty, and walk up and down Collins Avenue in Florida in pedal pushers and mink stoles and with opinions on every subject under…

Quote by Philip Roth

Topics: Age Quotes, Funny Quotes

When I was first in Czechoslovakia, it occurred to me that I work in a...

When I was first in Czechoslovakia, it occurred to me that I work in a...

Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of...

Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of...

When I was first in Czechoslovakia, it occurred to me that I work in a...

When I was first in Czechoslovakia, it occurred to me that I work in a...

The Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy and will remain a fifteen-year-old...

The Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy and will remain a fifteen-year-old...

A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old...

A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old...

Fear tends to manifest itself much more quickly than greed, so volatile markets tend to...

Fear tends to manifest itself much more quickly than greed, so volatile markets tend to...

History... is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

History... is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

Should you protect profits? Yes. But run for the hills? No.

Should you protect profits? Yes. But run for the hills? No.

A Jew without Jews, without Judaism, without Zionism, without Jewishness, without a temple or an...

A Jew without Jews, without Judaism, without Zionism, without Jewishness, without a temple or an...

When you publish a book, it's the world's book. The world edits it.

When you publish a book, it's the world's book. The world edits it.

The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.

The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.

Unless one is inordinately fond of subordination, one is always at war.

Unless one is inordinately fond of subordination, one is always at war.

Obviously the facts are never just coming at you but are incorporated by an imagination...

Obviously the facts are never just coming at you but are incorporated by an imagination...

Just like those who are incurably ill, the aged know everything about their dying except...

Just like those who are incurably ill, the aged know everything about their dying except...

Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Responsibility for learning belongs to the student, regardless of age.

Responsibility for learning belongs to the student, regardless of age.

This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is...

This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is...

In an age when man has forgotten his origins and is blind even to his...

In an age when man has forgotten his origins and is blind even to his...

We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing...

We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing...

Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too...

Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too...

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.