"Age Doesn't Matter Unless You're a Cheese": Wisdom from Our Elders [平装] 0761125183

在线阅读本书 "It's ill-becoming for an old broad to sing about howbad she wants it. But occasionally we do." -Lena Horne

"I take a simple view of living. It is: Keep your eyesopen and get on with it." -Laurence Olivier

"The only sin is mediocrity." -Martha Graham

"When I was young, I found out that the big toe always endsup making a hole in a sock. So I stopped wearing socks." -Albert Einstein

"Go out on a limb. That's where the fruit is."-Jimmy Carter

Full of surprise, insight, humor, perspective, celebration,inspiration, and a kind of offhand, poignant poetry, Age Doesn'tMatter Unless You're a Cheese--title courtesy of BillieBurke--shares hundreds of the best things men and women over sixtyhave said about how to love, work, laugh, and live. Collected byauthors with a perfect ear for quotes, Kathryn and Ross Petras, AgeDoesn't Matter brings together Albert Einstein's equation forhappiness, Colette on the virtues of astonishment, and Julia Child'ssecret of longevity: "Red meat and gin."

This collection of 350 quotes of wisdom from our elders brings together Albert Einstein's equation for happiness, Colette on the virtues of astonishment, and Julia Child's secret of longetivity: "Red meat and gin." Two color. Kathryn and Ross Petras, brother and sister, are the authors, most recently, of the Stupidest books and calendars and the new Tough Dames Calendar. Ross Petras lives with his family in Hoboken, New Jersey; Kathryn Petras with her husband in Manhattan. Neither is yet 50, but wrote this book in preparation for the inevitable-and in celebration of what they can look forward to.

出版社	Workman Publishing Company
作者	Kathryn Petras