Age Specific Mortality

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

    “Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.”
    —Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)

    “No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision.”
    —Barbara Tuchman (1912–1989)

    “Antiquity breached mortality with myths.
    Narcissus is vocabulary. Hermes decorates
    A cornice on the Third National Bank.”
    —Allen Tate (1899–1979)