Famous quotes containing the word aged:
“No wise man can have a contempt for the prejudices of others; and he should even stand in a certain awe of his own, as if they were aged parents and monitors. They may in the end prove wiser than he.”
—William Hazlitt (17781830)
“One aged manone mancant keep a house,
A farm, a countryside, or if he can,
Its thus he does it of a winter night.”
—Robert Frost (18741963)
“An aged man is but a paltry thing,
A tattered coat upon a stick, unless
Soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing
For every tatter in its mortal dress.”
—William Butler Yeats (18651939)
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