“Life is short and tedious, and is wholly spent in wishing; we trust to find rest and enjoyment at some future time, often at an age when our best blessings, youth and health, have already left us. When at last I that time has arrived, it surprises us in the midst of fresh desires; we have got no farther when we are attacked by a fever which kills us; if we had been cured, it would only have been to give us more time for other desires.” IfsLifeGivingHas BeensAgeLastsLife IsDesireLeftWishYouthBlessingSurpriseEnjoymentMidstMore TimeLife Is ShortFeverTediousFuture Time Author:Jean de la Bruyere
“The fear of old age disturbs us, yet we are not certain of becoming old.” AgeCertainBecomingOld Age Author:Jean de la Bruyere
“He who only writes to suit the taste of the age, considers himself more than his writings. We should always aim at perfection, and then posterity will do us that justice which sometimes our contemporaries refuse us.” ShouldWritingSometimesAgeJusticeTastePerfectionAimRefuseSuitsPosterity Author:Jean de la Bruyere
“We dread old age, which are not sure of being able to attain. [Fr., L'on craint la vieillesse, que l'on n'est pas sur de pouvoir atteindre.]” AgeAbleOld AgeNot SureDread Author:Jean de la Bruyere
“A coquette is one that is never to be persuaded out of the passion she has to please, nor out of a good opinion of her own beauty: time and years she regards as things that only wrinkle and decay other women, forgetting that age is written in the face, and that the same dress which became her when she was young now only makes her look older.” YearsLooksAgeFacesYoungPassionForgetOpinionWrittenPleaseRegardDressesDecayWrinklesCoquette Author:Jean de la Bruyere
“Wit is the god of moments, but Genius is the god of ages.” MomentsAgeGeniusWit Author:Jean de la Bruyere
“Too great carelessness, equally with excess in dress, multiplies the wrinkles of old age, and makes its decay still more conspicuous.” StillsAgeDressesOld AgeExcessDecayWrinklesCarelessness Author:Jean de la Bruyere
“A man is thirty years old before he has any settled thoughts of his fortune; it is not completed before fifty. He falls to building in his old age, and dies by the time his house is in a condition to be painted and glazed.” MenYearsAgeDiesFallHouseConditionsBuildingFortuneOld AgeThirtyFiftyThirty YearsThirty Years Old Author:Jean de la Bruyere
“When we are young we lay up for old age; when we are old we save for death.” AgeYoungLaysOld AgePrudence Author:Jean de la Bruyere
“They that have lived a single day have lived an age.” LifeAgeBirthdaySentimental Author:Jean de la Bruyere
“We hope to grow old and we dread old age; that is to say, we love life and we flee from death.” AgeGrowsOld AgeLove LifeDread Author:Jean de la Bruyere
“Piety with some people, but especially with women, is either a passion, or an infirmity of age, or a fashion which must be followed.” PeopleAgePassionFashionPietyInfirmity Author:Jean de la Bruyere
