“So precious life is! Even to the old, the hours are as a miser's coins!” LifeAgeLife IsHoursOld AgeCoinsMisersPrecious Life Book:The Works of Thomas Bailey Aldrich: Poems Source: The Works of Thomas Bailey Aldrich: Poems
“The happiest end of life is this: when the mind and the other senses being unimpaired, the same nature which put it together takes asunder her own work.” MindEndsAgeTogetherLife IsSensesOld AgeEnd Of Life Book:Cicero's Three books of offices, or moral duties: also his Cato Major, an essay on old age; Lælius, an essay on friendship; Paradoxes; Scipio's dream; and Letter to Quintus on the duties of a magistrate Source: Cicero's Three books of offices, or moral duties: also his Cato Major, an essay on old age; Lælius, an essay on friendship; Paradoxes; Scipio's dream; and Letter to Quintus on the duties of a magistrate
“For the short-lived bloom and contracted span of brief and wretched life is fast fleeting away! While we are drinking and calling for garlands, ointments, and women, old age steals swiftly on with noiseless step.” AgeLife IsStepsYouthCallingDrinkingStealingOld AgeFleetingWretchedGarlandsShort Lived Author:Juvenal