Leonardo da Vinci Quotes About Age

Quotes about: Age

• I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Time, Men, Compassion

• O Time! consumer of all things; O envious age! thou dost destroy all things and devour all things with the relentless teeth of years, little by little in a slow death. Helen, when she looked in her mirror, seeing the withered wrinkles made in her face by old age, wept and wondered why she had twice been carried away.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Time, Wrinkles, Mirrors

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.442, GENERAL PRESS

• Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age; and if you understand that old age has wisdom for its food, you will so conduct yourself in youth that your old age will not lack for nourishment.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Life, Evil

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.443, GENERAL PRESS

• Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Intelligent, Evil, Age

  Leonardo Da Vinci “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, Lulu.com

• In the days of thy youth seek to obtain that which shall compensate the losses of thy old age.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Loss, Age, Youth

  Leonardo da Vinci (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)”, p.965, Delphi Classics

• Let the painter composing narrative pictures take pleasure in wealth and variety, and avoid repeating any part that occurs in it, so that the uniqueness and abundance attract people to it and delight the eye of the observer. I say that a narrative painting requires (depending on the scene), wherever the eye falls, a mixture of men of diverse appearances, of diverse ages and dress, combined together with women, children, dogs, horses, buildings, fields, and hills.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Dog, Horse, Children

• Make your faces so that they do not all have the same expression, as one sees with most painters, but give them different expression, according to age, complexion, and good or bad character.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Character, Expression, Giving

• Old age takes in part savoury wisdom for its food - see to that your old age will not lack in nourishment.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Age, Old Age, Nourishment

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin