Famous Quotes | “You are old, father...
“You are old, father William,” the young man said,
“And your hair has become very white;
And yet you incessantly stand on your head
Do you think, at your age, it is right?”
- Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson]
Attribution: Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898), British author, mathematician. Alice, in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, “Advice from a Caterpillar,” (1865). A parody of Robert Southey’s didactic poem, “The Old Man’s Comforts and How He Gained Them” (1799), which begins: “You are old, father William,” the young man cried, “The few locks which are left you are grey; You are hale, father William, a hearty old man; Now tell me the reason I pray.”
Categories: Author, Mathematician, Old Age
