aged quotes

Great men are not always wise: neither do the aged understand judgment.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Job 32:9.

Asthe climbing up a sandy way isto the feet of the aged, so is a wife full of words to a quiet man.

-Bible (Apocrypha)
Ecclesiasticus 25:20.

You wouldn't mind being at once introduced to the Aged, would you?

- CharlesJohn Huffam Dickens
^1  Wemmick introduces Pip to his father. Great Expectations, ch.25.

Privacy is a privilege not granted to the aged or the young.

- Margaret Laurence
  The Stone Angel, ch.1.

Reminiscences make one feel so deliciouslyaged and sad.

- George Bernard Shaw
  The Irrational Knot, ch.14.

An aged man is but a paltry thing, A tattered coat upon a stick, unless Soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing For every tatter in its mortal dress.

-W(illiam) B(utler) Yeats
  'Sailing to Byzantium', stanza 8. Collected in TheTower (1928).