Age
Age sits with decent grace upon his visage,
And worthily becomes his silver locks;
He bears the marks of many years well spent,
Of virtue truth well tried, and wise experience. Rowe
As you are old and reverend, you should be wise. Shakespeare
These are the effects of doting age,
Vain doubts, an idle cares, and over caution. Dryden
But an old age serene and bright,
And lovely as a Lapland night,
Shall lead thee to thy grave. Wordsworth
How blest is he who crowns, in shades like these,
A youth of labor with an age of ease. Goldsmith
Eternal sunshine settles on his head. Goldsmith
Care keeps his watch in every old man’s eye. Shakespeare
When men grow virtuous in their old age, they are merely making a sacrifice to God of the Devil’s leavings. Swift
Last scene of all
That ends this strange, eventful history,
Is second childishness, and mere oblivion;
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything. Shakespeare
These old fellows have
Their ingratitude in them hereditary;
Their blood is caked, ‘tis cold, it seldom flows;
‘Tis lack of kindly warmth, they are not kind,
And nature, as it grows towards earth.
Is fashion’d for the journey — dull and heavy. Shakespeare
Every man desires to live long; but no man would be old. Swift
Age is a tyrant who forbids at the penalty of life, all the pleasures of youth. La Rochefoucauld
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