
Walt Whitman, "Song of the Open Road" http://www.bartleby.com/142/82., 12, Leaves of Grass (1855)
Misattributed
Source: Alcestis (438 BC), l. 669
Walt Whitman, "Song of the Open Road" http://www.bartleby.com/142/82., 12, Leaves of Grass (1855)
Misattributed
Conclusion, p. 539
The Coming of Age (1970)
Source: Moby-Dick: or, the Whale (1851), Ch. 29 : Enter Ahab; to Him, Stubb
“Old age is not as honorable as death, but most people seek it.”
Source: Fall of Kings
“Everything is sad and ridiculous in old age. Even the fear of death.”
"En la vejez todo es triste y ridículo: hasta el miedo a la muerte."
Diario de la Guerra del Cerdo, 1969.
“Anyone who claimed that old age had brought them patience was either lying or senile.”
What is Prayer?
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).