<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=417681" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Warning</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">When I am an old woman I shall wear purple<br>With a red hat which doesn't go, and doesn't suit me.<br>And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves<br>And satin sandals, and say we've no money for butter.<br>I shall sit down on the pavement when I'm tired<br>And gobble up samples in shops and press alarm bells<br>And run my stick along the public railings<br>And make up for the sobriety of my youth.<br>I shall go out in my slippers in the rain<br>And pick flowers in other people's gardens<br>And learn to spit.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You can wear terrible shirts and grow more fat<br>And eat three pounds of sausages at a go<br>Or only bread and pickle for a week<br>And hoard pens and pencils and beermats and things in boxes.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But now we must have clothes that keep us dry<br>And pay our rent and not swear in the street<br>And set a good example for the children.<br>We must have friends to dinner and read the papers.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But maybe I ought to practice a little now?<br>So people who know me are not too shocked and surprised<br>When suddenly I am old, and start to wear purple.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Jenny+Joseph">Jenny Joseph</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=417681" data-title="Warning de Jenny Joseph" data-description="When I am an old woman I shall wear purple With a red hat which doesn't go, and doesn't suit me. And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves And satin sandals, and say we've no money for butter. I shall sit down on the pavement when I..."></div> </div> </div>

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