“Wives are young men’s mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men’s nurses.”– Francis Bacon Related Quotes “You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.”– Walker Percy “The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.”– Randall Jarrell “Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age.”– Hesiod