Aged

Famous quotes containing the word aged:

“The hare grows old as she plays in the sun
And gazes around her with eyes of brightness;
Before the swift things that she dreamed of were done
She limps along in an aged whiteness....”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

“Now, aged 50, I’m just poised to shoot forth quite free straight & undeflected my bolts whatever they are.”
—Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)

“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)