"What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one’s faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one’s memories."
― W. Somerset Maugham
Topic(s):
Age
More From W. Somerset Maugham
- "The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned."
- "Only a mediocre person is always at his best."
- "The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind."
More In Age
- "My view is pensioners don’t have the one option that people of working age have. They can’t really increase their income, because they are no longer able to work."― Iain Duncan Smith
- "I think that clearly it has an influence, to be coming of age during the punk rock era, to come from a difficult and sporadically violent background, to have been in and out of such chaos, I think it actually helps. But I don’t know for sure."― Craig Ferguson
- "Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth."― Francois de La Rochefoucauld