• Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife; This simple boon I beg of Fate - A thousand years of Middle Life.

  Carolyn Wells
  American writer and poet 1862-1942
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. thousand
2. middle
3. vapid
4. state
5. fears
6. years

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Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife; This simple boon I beg of Fate - A thousand years of Middle Life. by : Carolyn Wells

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