Aged

Famous quotes containing the word aged:

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

    “She’s somebody’s mother, boys, you know,
    For all she’s aged and poor and slow,

    “And I hope some fellow will lend a hand
    To help my mother, you understand,

    “If ever she’s poor and old and gray,
    When her own dear boy is far away.”
    Mary Dow Brine (1816–1913)

    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 (1778–1830)