Aged

Famous quotes containing the word aged:

“It is as often a weakness in the aged to dictate to the young, as it is folly in the young to slight the warnings of the aged.”
—H., U.S. women’s magazine contributor. American Ladies Magazine, pp. 230-3 (May 1828)

“With sudden roar and aged pine-tree falls,—
One crash, the death-hymn of the perfect tree,
Declares the close of its green century.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“The glory of youths is their strength, but the beauty of the aged is their gray hair.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Proverbs 20:29.