Death Quote by George Herbert

One of the fathers saith . . . that old men go to death, and death comes to young men.

— Francis Bacon

Old men go to death; but death comes to young men.

— Proverb

I love the acquaintance of young people; because, in the first place, I do not like to think myself growing old. In the next…

— Samuel Johnson

When the waitress puts the dinner on the table, the old men look at the dinner. The young men look at the waitress.

— Gelett Burgess

Yet, every now and then, there would pass a young girl, slender, fair and desirable, arousing in young men a not ignoble desire to…

— Anatole France

Young men have visions, old men have dreams.

— Red Smith

Young men mend not their sight by using old men's spectacles.

— John Donne

“In childhood, you long to grow up fast because older people are more powerful, young men more powerful. A child just longs to grow…

— Osho

When old men decided to barter young men for pride and profit, the transaction was called war.

— Len Deighton

“may be well to repeat here the saying that old men talk of what they have done, young men of what they are doing,…

— Carter G. Woodson

“ Luther Burbank was born in a brick farmhouse in Lancaster Mass, he walked through the woods one winter crunching through the shinycrusted snow…

— John Dos Passos

Men after death ... are understood worse than men of the moment, but heard better.

— Friedrich Nietzsche