A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eatingArnold Bennettageeat and drinkleisuretimeCopy this quote
“Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death
“I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever
“Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age.
“When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.