Aged

Famous quotes containing the word aged:

    I cannot give them my confidence; pardon me, gentlemen, confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom: youth is the season of credulity.
    William, Earl Of Pitt (1708–1778)

    Beneath them sit the aged men, wise guardians of the poor;
    Then cherish pity, lest you drive an angel from your door.
    William Blake (1757–1827)

    An aged man is but a paltry thing,
    A tattered coat upon a stick,
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)