<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=537356" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Why Should Not Old Men Be Mad?</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">WHY should not old men be mad?<br>Some have known a likely lad<br>That had a sound fly-fisher's wrist<br>Turn to a drunken journalist;<br>A girl that knew all Dante once<br>Live to bear children to a dunce;<br>A Helen of social welfare dream,<br>Climb on a wagonette to scream.<br>Some think it a matter of course that chance<br>Should starve good men and bad advance,<br>That if their neighbours figured plain,<br>As though upon a lighted screen,<br>No single story would they find<br>Of an unbroken happy mind,<br>A finish worthy of the start.<br>Young men know nothing of this sort,<br>Observant old men know it well;<br>And when they know what old books tell<br>And that no better can be had,<br>Know why an old man should be mad.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=William+Butler+Yeats">William Butler Yeats</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=537356" data-title="Why Should Not Old Men Be Mad? de William Butler Yeats" data-description="WHY should not old men be mad? Some have known a likely lad That had a sound fly-fisher's wrist Turn to a drunken journalist; A girl that knew all Dante once Live to bear children to a dunce; A Helen of social welfare dream, Climb on a wagonette t..."></div> </div> </div>

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