"Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long." ― W. Somerset Maugham Topic(s): Age More From W. Somerset Maugham "Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it." "The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned." "You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance." More In Age "The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class."― Karl Marx "I wanted to be a forest ranger or a coal man. At a very early age, I knew I didn’t want to do what my dad did, which was work in an office."― Harrison Ford "To me – old age is always ten years older than I am."― John Burroughs