Age

Famous quotes containing the word age:

    Come now, what masques, what dances shall we have
    To wear away this long age of three hours
    Between our after-supper and bedtime?
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    Nothing dates one so dreadfully as to think someplace is uptown.... At our age one must be watchful of these conversational gray hairs.
    Ruth Gordon (1896–1985)

    My age fallen away like white swaddling
    Floats in the middle distance, becomes
    An inhabited cloud.
    Philip Larkin (1922–1986)