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“Old age is never honored among us, but only indulged, as childhood is; and old men lose one of the most precious rights of man,--that of being judged by their peers.”

Men Age Loses Rights Childhood Old Age Old Man Judged Peers Honored Being Judged

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“It was among farmers and potato diggers and old men in workhouses and beggars at my own door that I found what was beyond these and yet farther beyond that drawingroom poet of my childhood in the expression of love, and grief, and the pain of parting, that are the disclosure of the individual soul.”

Men Soul Pain Found Individual My Own Grief Doors Childhood Poet Expression Old Man Farmers Potatoes Parting Beggar Disclosure Expressions Of Love Workhouses

Book:The Kiltartan Poetry Book

Source: The Kiltartan Poetry Book

“My intention was to write a chapter of the moral history of my country and I chose Dublin for the scene because that city seemed to me the centre of paralysis.”

“In childhood, death stirred me not; in middle age, it pursued me like a prowling bandit on the road; now, grown an old man, it boldly leads the way, and ushers me on.”

Men Way Age Death Childhood Middle Old Man Middle Ages Pursued Bandits Prowling

Book:Mardi: And a Voyage Thither

Source: Mardi: And a Voyage Thither

“An old man, having retired from active life, regains the gaity and irresponsibility of childhood. He is ready to play, he cannot run with his son, but he can totter with his grandson. Our first and last steps have the same rhythm.”

Men Firsts Play Running Age Lasts Steps Childhood Son Ready Aging Active Rhythm Old Man Retired Irresponsibility Grandson Firsts And Lasts Active Life

Author:Andre Maurois

“The old men gazed on them in their loveliness, and turned away with that deep and painful sigh, which the gladness of childhood, and thetransient beauty of youth, are so apt to awaken in the bosom of the aged.”

Men Childhood Youth Aging Painful Old Man Sigh Bosoms Gladness Loveliness

Author:Lydia M. Child

“What a childhood I had, why, when I took my first step, my old man tripped me!”

Men Firsts Steps Childhood Old Man First Steps

Author:Rodney Dangerfield