Old age is a tyrant who forbids under pain of death the pleasures of youth.
Quotes By Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus...
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Women's virtue is frequently nothing but a regard to their own quiet and a...
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The generality of virtuous women are like hidden treasures they are safe...
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You can find women who have never had an affair but it is hard to find a...
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There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
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One can find women who have never had one love affair but it is rare indeed...
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We give advice but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
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Some counterfeits reproduce so very well the truth that it would be a flaw of...
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However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with yet...
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We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and...
Quotes About Age
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The two most misused words in the entire English vocabulary are love and...
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The first crocodile I ever caught was at nine years of age and it was a...
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Time in general has always been a central obsession of mine - what it does...
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Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the...
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If there is anything I would do differently in my life it is that I would...
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What though youth gave love and roses Age still leaves us friends and wine.
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In a spiritually sensitive culture then it might well be that age is...
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The age we live in is a busy age in which knowledge is rapidly advancing...
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We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem...
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Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.