"How ill white hairs become a fool..." - Quote by William Shakespeare
How ill white hairs become a fool and jester!
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More on Aging
“The fact was I didn't want to look my age, but I didn't want to act the age I wanted to look either. I also wanted to grow old enough to understand that sentence.”
“Age childish makes, they say, but 'tis not true;We're only genuine children still in Age's season.[Ger., Das Alter macht nicht kindisch, wie man spricht,Es findet uns nur noch als wahre Kinder.]”
“I like old men. They can be wonderful bastards because they have nothing to lose. The only people who can be themselves are babies and old bastards.”
More on Foolishness
“You are a tedious fool.”
“Man is the Reasoning Animal. Such is the claim. I think it is open to dispute. Indeed, my experiments have proven to me that he is the Unreasoning Animal... In truth, man is incurably foolish. Simple things which the other animals easily learn, he is incapable of learning. Among my experiments was this. In an hour I taught a cat and a dog to be friends. I put them in a cage. In another hour I taught them to be friends with a rabbit. In the course of two days I was able to add a fox, a goose, a squirrel and some doves. Finally a monkey. They lived together in peace; even affectionately.”
“I was young and foolish then; now I am old and foolisher.”