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Women will not simply be mainstreamed into the polluted stream. Women are changing the stream, making it clean and green and safe for all - every gender, race, creed, sexual orientation, age, and ability.
When you write your first book aged 25 or so, you have 25 years of experience, albeit much of it juvenile experience. The second book comes after an extra year sitting in bookshops. Pretty soon, you begin to run on empty.
Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.
There must be a day or two in a man's life when he is the precise age for something important.
Years ago we discovered the exact point the dead center of middle age. It occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.
Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.
It is easy to believe that life is long and one's gifts are vast - easy at the beginning, that is. But the limits of life grow more evident; it becomes clear that great work can be done rarely, if at all.
To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.
While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.
I recently turned sixty. Practically a third of my life is over.
I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age.
God grant me the senility to forget the people I never liked anyway, the good fortune to run into the ones I do, and the eyesight to tell the difference.
I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.
Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
I am past thirty, and three parts iced over.
When it comes time to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with the fear of death, so when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.
I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.
I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.
You grew old first not in your own eyes, but in other people's eyes; then, slowly, you agreed with their opinion of you.
I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.
Age is deformed, youth unkind,
We scorn their bodies, they our mind.
You only have to survive in England and all is forgiven you ... if you can eat a boiled egg at ninety in England they think you deserve a Nobel Prize.
In youth we run into difficulties; in old age difficulties run into us.
If I'd known I was gonna live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself.
To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.
I am 46, and have been for some time past.
How does one keep fromgrowing old inside? Surely only in community. The only way to make friends with time is to stay friends with people? Taking community seriously not only gives us the companionship we need, it also relieves us of the notion that we are indispensable.
Grow old along with me!
The best is yet to be.
The error of youth is to believe that intelligence is a substitute for experience, while the error of age is to believe that experience is a substitute for intelligence.
Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.
Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.
The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation.
We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.
You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.
Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese.
You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.
To me - old age is always ten years older than I am.
A lady of acertain age, which means Certainly aged.
Years steal Fire from the mind as vigour from the limb; And Life's enchanted cup but sparkles near the brim.
God has forgotten me.
Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
After forty a woman has to choose between losing her figure or her face. My advice is to keep your face, and stay sitting down.
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.
Old men are like that, you know. It makes them feel important to think they are in love with somebody.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.
Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.
A woman has the age she deserves.
Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.
A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.
Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.
I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and of personal relations; and suddenly find - at the age of fifty, say - that a whole new life has opened before you, filled with things you can think about, study, or read about...It is as if a fresh sap of ideas and thoughts was rising in you.
Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.
As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.
As I give thought to the matter, I find four causes for the apparent misery of old age: first, it withdraws us from active accomplishments; second, it renders the body less powerful; third, it deprives us of almost all forms of enjoyment; fourth, it stands not far from death.
We've put more effort into helping folks reach old age than into helping them enjoy it.
Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature.
The problem with beauty is that it's like being born rich and getting poorer.
A man is as old as he's feeling, a woman as old as she looks.
Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.
The Master said,At fifteen I set my heart on learning; at thirty I took my stand; at forty I came to be free from doubts; at fifty I understood the Decree of Heaven; at sixty my ear was attuned; at seventy I followed my heart's desire without overstepping the line.
First you are young; then you are middle-aged; then you are old; then you are wonderful.
Like everyone else who makes the mistake of getting older, I begin each day with coffee and obituaries.
When you become senile, you won't know it.
Habit with him was all the test of youth,
It must be right: I've done it from my youth.
There are things I'd wish weren't part of ageing. But what you gain is much more than you're giving up. I don't think you come into your own until you're 35 or so.
The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.
The whole business of marshaling one's energies becomes more and more important as one grows older.
We are all born naked and young.
At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoléon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.
The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children.
Old age is no place for sissies.
Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.
The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.
Old age is a shipwreck.
You are a human boy, my young friend.
A human boy. O glorious to be a human boy! ...
O running stream of sparkling joy
To be a soaring human boy!
Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.
Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle; Old Age a regret.
In youth we learn; in age we understand.
You can stay young as long as you can learn, acquire new habits and suffer contradictions.
The answer to old age is to keep one's mind busy and to go on with one's life as if it were interminable. I always admired Chekhov for building a new house when he was dying of tuberculosis.
I am long on ideas, but short on time. I expect to live to be only about a hundred.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
People like you and I, though mortal of course like everyone else, do not grow old no matter how long we live...[We] never cease to stand like curious children before the great mystery into which we were born.
I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.
The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do more, and you are not yet decrepit enough to turn them down.
All diseases run into one, old age.
Nature abhors the old, and old age seems the only disease; all others run into this one.
We as for long life, but 'tis deep life, or noble moments that signify. Let the measure of time be spiritual, not mechanical.
Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.
Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair.
A man shouldn't fool with booze until he's fifty; then he's a damn fool if he doesn't.
Maturity is only a short break in adolescence.
Being an old maid is like death by drowning - a really delightful sensation after you have ceased struggling.
Age does not diminish the extreme disappointment of having a scoop of ice cream fall from the cone.
Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.
So people think I'm lying about my age all the time? It's the records that are wrong. I've never told anyone how old I am. The minute they ask me, I sayThat's none of your business.So that means I've never once lied about my age. Now that's true!
By the time we've made it, we've had it.
You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M.D. after them.
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled.
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
All would live long, but none would be old.
At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of thirty.
Four spectres haunt the Poor - Old Age, Accident, Sickness and Unemployment. We are going to exorcise them. We are going to drive hunger from the hearth. We mean to banish the workhouse from the horizon of every workman in the land.
Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.
There is still no cure for the common birthday.
Age does not make us childish, as they say. It only finds us true children still.
What do we ever get nowadays from reading to equal the excitement and the revelation in those first fourteen years?
In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived.
The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.
Three things happen when you get to my age. First your memory starts to go ... and I have forgotten the other two.
Life is half spent before we know what it is.
Age, like distance lends a double charm.
Only the young die good.
Stages
As every flower fades and as all youth
Departs, so life at every stage,
So every virtue, so our grasp of truth,
Blooms in its day and may not last forever.
Since life may summon us at every age
Be ready, heart, for parting, new endeavor,
Be ready bravely and without remorse
To find new light that old ties cannot give.
In all beginnings dwells a magic force
For guarding us and helping us to live.
Serenely let us move to distant places
And let no sentiments of home detain us.
The Cosmic Spirit seeks not to restrain us
But lifts us stage by stage to wider spaces.
If we accept a home of our own making,
Familiar habit makes for indolence.
We must prepare for parting and leave-taking
Or else remain the slaves of permanence.
Even the hour of our death may send
Us speeding on to fresh and newer spaces,
And life may summon us to newer races.
So be it, heart: bid farewell without end.
I find that a man is as old as his work. If his work keeps him from moving forward, he will look forward with the work.
Perhaps a modern society can remain stable only by eliminating adolescence, by giving its young, from the age of ten, the skills, responsibilities, and rewards of grownups, and opportunites for action inall spheres of life. Adolescence should be a time of useful action, while book learning and scholarship should be a preoccupation of adults.
Oh, to be seventy again!
Old age is fifteen years older than I am.
In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare!
I don't feel old. I don't feel anything till noon. That's when it's time for my nap.
Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.
You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men.
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.
I think middle age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.
A tart temper mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edge tool that grows keener with constant use.
Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.
No man is ever old enough to know better.
It is so comic to hear oneself called old, even at ninety I suppose!
How pleasant is the day when we give up striving to be young - or slender.
I see no comfort in outliving one's friends, and remaining a mere monument of the times which are past.
Though an old man I am but a young gardener.
Too old to plant trees for my own gratification, I shall do it for my posterity.
I am thirty, the same as our People's Republic. For a republic thirty is still young. But a girl of thirty is virtually on the shelf.
Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.
Every old man complains of the growing depravity of the world, of the petulance and insolence of the rising generation.
Among all my patients in the second half of life ... there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life.
A child is owed the greatest respect; if you ever have something disgraceful in mind, don't ignore your son's tender years.
It is not possible for civilization to flow backward while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance its allotted length.
Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.
The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.
Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms
Inside your head, and people in them, acting.
People you know, yet can't quite name.
The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.
Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.
The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.
The simplest toy, on which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent.
How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.
And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Age is other things too. It is wisdom, if one has lived one's life properly. It is experience and knowledge. And it is getting to know all the ways the world turns, so that if you cannot turn the world the way you want, you can at least get out of the way so you won't get run over.
Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.
Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.
From the earliest times the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser than they, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture.
What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.
Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.
There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, we know it was much later.
As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost.
Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.
If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.
I'm not that old.
Age will bring all things, and everyone knows, Madame, that twenty is no age to be a prude.
I want to die young at a ripe old age.
Old age puts more wrinkles in our minds than on our faces.
Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.
Age does not protect you from love, but love to some extent protects you from age.
Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.
You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely!
When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.
We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations.
Middle age is when, wherever you go on holiday, you pack a sweater.
I've been cushioned against having to work, with Rocky's continual bounty.
At fifty, everyone has the face he deserves.
How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?
I wore a padded bra every single day and night from the age of 14 until I was 31. Giving up padding was my New Year's resolution. I had known for ages that wearing a stuffed bra was a form of hiding my real body.
In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.
Live your life and forget your age.
It takes a long time to become young.
My idea of hell is to be young again.
Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.
I used to anticipate my childhood birthday parties as if each were an annual coronation. Like most kids, I loved sitting at the head of the table with a crown on my head. In recent years, however, birthdays have been more like medical check-ups - no fun at all but necessary if one intends to stay alive from year to year.
Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.
We pay when old for the excesses of youth.
I think my fans will follow me into our combined old age. Real musicians and real fans stay together for a long, long time.
The old begin to complain of the conduct of the young when they themselves are no longer able to set a bad example.
Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
One of the blessings of age is to learn not to part on a note of sharpness, to treasure the moments spent with those we love, and to make them whenever possible good to remember, for time is short.
We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
Nowdays most women grow old gracefully; most men, disgracefully.
If you want to be a dear old lady at seventy, you should start early, say about seventeen.
The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened. It's only the middle-aged who are really conscious of their limitations.
When I was young, I was told:You'll see, when you're fifty.I am fifty and I haven't seen a thing.
A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE ....
enough money within her control to move out
and rent a place of her own even if she never wants
to or needs to...
A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE ....
something perfect to wear if the employer or date of her
dreams wants to see her in an hour...
A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE ...
a youth she's content to leave behind....
A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE ....
a past juicy enough that she's looking forward to
retelling it in her old age....
A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE .....
a set of screwdrivers, a cordless drill, and a black
lace bra...
A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE ....
one friend who always makes her laugh... and one who
lets her cry...
A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE ....
a good piece of furniture not previously owned by anyone
else in her family...
A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE ....
eight matching plates, wine glasses with stems, and a
recipe for a meal that will make her guests feel honored...
A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE ....
a feeling of control over her destiny...
EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...
how to fall in love without losing herself..
EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...
HOW TO QUIT A JOB,
BREAK UP WITH A LOVER,
AND CONFRONT A FRIEND WITHOUT RUINING THE FRIENDSHIP...
EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...
when to try harder... and WHEN TO WALK AWAY...
EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...
that she can't change the length of her calves,
the width of her hips, or the nature of her parents..
EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...
that her childhood may not have been perfect...but it's over...
EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...
what she would and wouldn't do for love or more...
EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...
how to live alone... even if she doesn't like it...
EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...
whom she can trust,
whom she can't,
and why she shouldn't
take it personally...
EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...
where to go...
be it to her best friend's kitchen table...
or a charming inn in the woods...
when her soul needs soothing...
EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...
what she can and can't accomplish in a day...
a month...and a year...
As I grow older and older
And totter towards the tomb,
I find that I care less and less
Who goes to bed with whom.
Like many women my age, I am 28 years old.
The secret of staying young is mixing with older people.
Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age.
No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.
In a dream you are never eighty.
The joy that isn't shared dies young.
Crabbed age and youth cannot live together:
Youth is full of pleasure, age is full of care;
Youth like summer morn, age like winter weather;
Youth like summer brave, age like winter bare.
Every man over forty is a scoundrel.
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
Youth is wasted on the young.
In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.
The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood.
One evil in old age is that as your time is come you think every little illness is the beginning of the end. When a man expects to be arrested every knock at the door is an alarm.
Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.
Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.
When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
To age and imbecility resigned, I watch the struggles of my failing mind: Lumbering along the all-too-well-worn grooves. The poor old thing moves slowly - but it moves!
The trick is growing up without growing old.
To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years, and take rank, not as a prophet, but as an unteachable brat, well birched and none the wiser.
Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.
So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why don't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?
Every man desires to live long but no man would be old.
A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.
Age considers; youth ventures.
It's difficult to know a person until he turns twenty-five - difficult to say what would happen to him ... but it is easy to recognise a twenty seven-year old - it can be said he's become what he's supposed to be, and from now on this is how his life would be guided, [if] there's anything left in his life to get astonished.
None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.
The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.
Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.
With 60 staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and a definite hardening of the paragraphs.
All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.
I am pushing sixty. That is enough exercise for me.
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.
Ageing doesn't mean giving up on style and individuality; it doesn't mean abandoning fashion and living in comfy slippers and flannel knickers.
I cried on my 18th birthday. I thought 17 was such a nice age. You're young enough to get away with things, but you're old enough, too.
Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.
Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.
The whale is endangered, while the ant continues to do just fine.
The wonderful world of home appliances now makes it possible to cook indoors with charcoal and outdoors with gas.
Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.
You will find as the children grow up that as a rule children are a bitter disappointment - their greatest object being to do precisely what their parents do not wish and have anxiously tried to prevent.
For certain people, after fifty, litigation takes the place of sex.
You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.
Age carries all things away, even the mind.
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.
There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.
There ought to be more grants that go to people in their late twenties and early thirties. That's a crucial age, although it's very hard to judge who is worth supporting and who is not. Looking back on my own life, I see that was the period when I was closest to giving up as a novelist and when I most needed some encouragement.
As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.
One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that, would tell one anything.
The old believe everything: the middle-aged suspect everything: the young know everything.
Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.
Those whom the gods hate die old.
To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
When I was young I used to think that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old, I know that it is.
Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and are not.
It is a terrible thing for an old woman to outlive her dogs.
By age forty you were either making a million a year or you were timid and incompetent.
One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.
The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.
When you are old and gray and full of sleep,
And nodding by the fire, take down this book,
And slowly read ...
How many loved your moments of glad grace,
And loved your beauty with love false or true,
But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you,
And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.
