An old man, having been asked why he did not marry, replied that he could not be happy with an aged woman, and on being told that as he was a man of property, he might take a young one, he said: ‘I being an old man and unwilling to associate with an old woman, how could a young one conceive friendship for me who am aged?’ <br /> <br /> Let not a man of seventy years make love. <br /> Thou art confessedly blind, kiss her and sleep. <br /> The lady wants strength, not gold. <br /> One passage is preferable to her than ten mann of flesh.<br /><br />Saadi Shirazi<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/ch-06-on-weakness-and-old-age-story-08/
