Aged

Famous quotes containing the word aged:

“One aged man—one man—can’t keep a house,
A farm, a countryside, or if he can,
It’s thus he does it of a winter night.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)

“Just like those who are incurably ill, the aged know everything about their dying except exactly when.”
—Philip Roth (b. 1933)

“With sudden roar and aged pine-tree falls,—
One crash, the death-hymn of the perfect tree,
Declares the close of its green century.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)