Age Specific Mortality

Famous quotes containing the words age, specific and/or mortality:

“Your lordship, though not clean past your youth, have yet some smack of age in you, some relish of the saltness of time.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“I recognize in [my readers] a specific form and individual property, which our predecessors called Pantagruelism, by means of which they never take anything the wrong way that they know to stem from good, honest and loyal hearts.”
—François Rabelais (1494–1553)

“The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.”
—William Dean Howells (1837–1920)