The elders

The elders

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You can fool some of the people all of the time, and some of the people some of the time, but you’re unlikely to slip anything past an old lady. A photographic look at the matriarchs and elder stateswomen of the world’s different cultures and civilizations.

Published: 2012-03-08 18:32:54 UTC

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Alice Springs, Australia

“Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.” — André Maurois

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Irkutsk Oblast, Russia

“While being young is an accident of time, youth is a permanent state of mind.” — Frank Lloyd Wright

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Chinatown, Singapore

“This is the great gift of being old: you’re very detached. All that Sturm und Drang or whatever it is disappears.” — Doris Lessing

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Finistère, France

“I am not young but I feel young. The day I feel old, I will go to bed and stay there. J’aime la vie!” — Coco Chanel

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Trans-Siberian Railway, Russia

"I'm old enough and cranky enough now that if someone tried to tell me what to do, I'd tell them where to put it" — Dolly Parton

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Marsh Library, Dublin, Ireland

“Be on the alert to recognise your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur. You must then live it to the full.” — Muriel Spark

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Belfast, Northern Ireland

“Ah, but I was so much older then / I’m younger than that now.” — Bob Dylan

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La Coudre Abbey, Laval, France

“Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.” — Dorothy L. Sayers

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Sri Mariamam Temple, Singapore

“When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.” — Madame de Staël

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Antananarivo, Madagascar

“To love playthings well as a child, to lead an adventurous and honourable youth, and to settle when the time arrives, into a green and smiling age, is to be a good artist in life and deserve well of yourself and your neighbour.” — Robert Louis Stevenson

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Kangandissou, Côte d'Ivoire

“It takes a long time to become young.” — Pablo Picasso