“Tomorrow will be like today, and the day after tomorrow will be like the day before yesterday. I see your remaining days as a tedious collection of hours full of useless vanities. You will think no new thoughts. You will forget what little you have known. Older you will become, but not wiser. Stiffer, but not more dignified.”
“Fine as frog fur” got a little old, so I switched to “Fine as paint” (which is finer than whitewash)