Few
women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to
think the long sad years of youth were worth living
for the sake of middle age.
-- George Eliot
1819-1880, British
Novelist
In the
multitude of middle-aged men who go about their
vocations in a daily course determined for them much
in the same way as the tie of their cravats, there
is always a good number who once meant to shape
their own deeds and alter the world a little.
-- George Eliot
1819-1880, British
Novelist
I
don't believe one grows older. I think that what
happens early on in life is that at a certain age
one stands still and stagnates.
-- T. S. Eliot
1888-1965,
American-born British Poet, Critic
The
years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You
are always being asked to do things, and yet you are
not decrepit enough to turn them down.
-- T. S. Eliot
1888-1965,
American-born British Poet, Critic
