Robert Southey Quotes About Age

Quotes about: Age

• Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.

  Robert Southey

  Funny Birthday, Years, Long

  'The Doctor' (1812) ch. 130

• It behooves us always to bear in mind, that while actions are always to be judged by the immutable standard of right and wrong, the judgments which we pass upon men must be qualified by considerations of age, country, station, and other accidental circumstances; and it will then be found that he who is most charitable in his judgment is generally the least unjust.

  Robert Southey

  Country, Men, Mind

• In the days of my youth I remembered my God! And He hath not forgotten my age.

  Robert Southey

  Age, Youth, Aging

  "The Old Man's Comforts and How He Gained Them" l. 21 (1799)

• Man hath a weary pilgrimage,
  As through the word he wends;
  On every stage, from youth to age,
  Still discontent attends.

  Robert Southey

  Men, Age, Youth

  Robert Southey (1866). “The Poetical Works of Robert Southey: Complete in One Volume”, p.118

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