Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes About Age

Quotes about: Age

• The old begin to complain of the conduct of the young when they themselves are no longer able to set a bad example.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Age, Example, Complaining

• As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Time, Silly, Age

  "The Moral Maxims and Reflections". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld, 1655.

• Folly pursues us at all periods of our lives. If someone seems wise it is only because his follies are proportionate to his age and fortune.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Wise, Mistake, Errors

• The height of ability consists in a thorough knowledge of the real value of things, and of the genius of the age in which we live.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Real, Knowledge, Age

• Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Inability To Love, Giving, People

• It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Birthday, Men, Age

• The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Birthday, Mind, Age

• Youth changes its tastes by the warmth of its blood; age retains its tastes by habit.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Blood, Age, Taste

• In infants, levity is a prettiness; in men a shameful defect; but in old age, a monstrous folly.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Men, Age, Levity

• Nothing is more ridiculous in old people that were once good-looking, than to forget that they are not so still.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Beauty, People, Age

• When our vices desert us, we flatter ourselves that we are deserting our vices.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Age, Vices, Desert

• As we grow older, we increase in folly--and in wisdom.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Wisdom, Age, Increase

• The passions of youth are not more dangerous to health than is the lukewarmness of old age.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Passion, Age, Youth

• Few know how to be old.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Age, Know How, Knows

  "The Moral Maxims and Reflections". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld. Maxim 423, 1678.

• The older a fool is, the worse he is.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Age, Fool, Folly

  "Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II". Book by Thomas Fuller, 1727.

• Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Birthday, Death, Time

• The heat of youth is not more opposed to safety than the coldness of age.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Safety, Age, Youth

• Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Names, People, Acting

• Time's chariot-wheels make their carriage-road in the fairest face.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Age, Faces, Wheels

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