It is the fight alone that pleases us not the victory.

There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone and that I have no one to tell it to.

The struggle alone pleases us not the victory.

There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English but with not one recognizable syllable.

Many women my age have known the experience of giving up crucial parts of themselves to please the man they love.

One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up.

I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them: for if one's tongue don't move in the steps of the day and thinks to please by its old graces it is only an object of ridicule.

Alexander at the head of the world never tasted the true pleasure that boys of his own age have enjoyed at the head of a school.

O love if I regret the age when one savors you it is not for the hour of pleasure but for the one that follows it.

I'm very pleased to be here. Let's face it at my age I'm very pleased to be anywhere.