Old
age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death,
the pleasures of youth.
-- Francois De La
Rochefoucauld
1613-1680, French
Classical Writer
Old
men are fond of giving good advice to console
themselves for their inability to give bad examples.
-- Francois De La
Rochefoucauld
1613-1680, French
Classical Writer
O what
a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.
-- Walter Savage
Landor
1775-1864, British
Poet, Essayist
Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside
your head, and people in them, acting. People you
know, yet can't quite name.
-- Philip Larkin
1922-1986, British
Poet
