François de La Rochefoucauld Quote

Nothing makes old people who have been attractive more ridiculous than to forget that they are so no longer.


A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1886)


Nothing makes old people who have been attractive more ridiculous than to forget that they are so no longer.

Nothing makes old people who have been attractive more ridiculous than to forget that they are so no longer.

Nothing makes old people who have been attractive more ridiculous than to forget that they are so no longer.

Nothing makes old people who have been attractive more ridiculous than to forget that they are so no longer.