Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes About Old Age

Quotes about: Old Age

• 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

• 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.

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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